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Cerritos
College has a responsibility to provide equal
access to information technology to all students, faculty and staff,
regardless of whether the individual is blind, low-vision, or hearing
impaired.
Faculty and Staff Accommodations
Any
information technology that Cerritos
College procures must
be compliant with CA SB 105 (which directly
references Section 508 guidelines.)
And while there are many technology aides to that end, most of these programs
require that programmers begin by following the guidelines established by the
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 explain how to make information technology
accessible to people with disabilities. The primary goal of these guidelines
is to promote accessibility.
However, following them
will also make information more available to all users, whatever user agent they are using (e.g., desktop browser,
voice browser, mobile phone, automobile-based personal computer, etc.) or
constraints they may be operating under (e.g., noisy surroundings, under- or
over-illuminated rooms, in a hands-free environment, etc.). These guidelines
do not discourage developers and programmers from
using images, video, etc., but rather explain how to make multimedia content
accessible to a wider audience.
 This page is Bobby Approved
Web Author: Tim Kyllingstad (tkyllingstad@cerritos.edu)
Disclaimer
Last update:
07/12/06
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