November 21st Faculty Forum on Preparing for ADA Title II Regulation Changes for Digital Accessibility
Dear Faculty Colleagues,
On Friday, November 21st at noon (via Zoom), Academic Technology Services will be hosting a Faculty Forum on Preparing for ADA Title II Regulation Changes for Digital Accessibility.
As many of you may know, from communications from the U.S. Department of Justice and UC Office of the President, all large public and private universities are facing a nationwide accessibility deadline. Starting April 2026, and moving forward, our public-facing communications, including the content in our UC Davis Canvas course pages, must be made accessible to all members of the intended audiences, including our students with various disabilities.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of what we once called the World Wide Web, famously said “The web is humanity connected by technology.” As we review, explore, and collaborate on implementing these federal regulations on digital accessibility, we will discover how we can continue to imbue new communications and educational technologies with humanity, all while continuing to teach effectively.
At our faculty forum, we will discuss these efforts with faculty who have already taken steps to make their courses more accessible, as well as with those who want to share their questions and concerns. ATS and CEE experts on instructional technology and accessibility will be on hand; we will also be joined by Wendi Delmendo, campus Chief Compliance Officer, and Brad Starkey-Owens, our campus Digital Accessibility Program Manager. I look forward to seeing where the conversation will take us.
We hope you can join us to overhear, or contribute to, the conversation! Please register now and add this special event to your calendar.
See you on November 21st at noon. This event will be recorded with the video to be afterward posted on The Wheel, the instructional technology blog of UC Davis.
Dr. Andy Jones
Academic Director, Academic Technology Services
University of California, Davis
Faculty Forum: Preparing for ADA Title II Regulation Changes for Digital Accessibility
Friday, November 21st at Noon via Zoom
P.S. Please find below some relevant resources, most of them home-grown.
- From the ADA: “Fact Sheet: New Rule on the Accessibility of Web Content and Mobile Apps Provided by State and Local Governments”
- From UCOP: “New regulations for the Americans with Disabilities Act that will impact UC”
- UC Accessibility (A11Y) Project - from Katie Healey at The Center for Educational Effectiveness (CEE) - “UC Online-funded grant project [that] aims to cultivate a collaborative learning community around accessibility, disability justice, and Universal Design for Learning”
- Universal Design for Learning Institute from Katie Healey at CEE
- “Quick Access” series about digital accessibility on The Wheel
- “Alt Text Accessibility” video from SITT 2025 by Katie Healey
- “SensusAccess Inside” video from SITT 2025 by Joshua Hori
- “Canvas and Accessibility” video from SITT 2025 by Joshua Hori
- SITT 2025 interview with Brad Starkey-Owens: A Conversation about Digital Accessibility at UC Davis
- Recent article from the CEE newsletter: “From Access to Inclusion: CEE helps bring the ADA’s Spirit Online: Supporting Instructors Through the Shift to Digital Accessibility”
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