7:30am - 9:00am   Coffee & Registration

9:00am - 9:30am   Introductions & Ice Breaker

9:30am - 10:30am   Keynote:  Why must we consider the accessibility of EIT?
Speaker: Andrew Cioffi, Director of the Office of Disability Services, Suffolk University

We will discuss how the current laws, standards for accessibility and WCAG guidelines intersect and impact any Electronic Information Technology (EIT) purchased or used on a college campus.

10:30am - 10:45am   Break

10:45am - 11:45am  Accessibility Nuts and Bolts
Speaker: Andrew Cioffi, Director of the Office of Disability Services, Suffolk University

Learn what tools to use to test the accessibility of an EIT product (demo/ hands-on).

11:45am – 12:45pm  Lunch

12:45pm – 1:45pm  Getting Faculty Buy-in Through Simple Solutions
Speaker: Kirsten Behling, Director of Student Accessibility Services at Tufts University

What trainings have been effective? How do you get faculty to the table? We will discuss this as a large group before breaking into smaller groups to discuss potential challenges and solutions with commonly used course content (Word, PDF, Excel, Websites, Audio/videos, Publisher-generated material.)

1:45pm – 2:00pm   Break

2:00pm – 2:45pm   A Guided Workshop:
Speaker: Kirsten Behling, Director of Student Accessibility Services at Tufts University

Creating a culture of access at your institution. We will take a look at how other institutions have infused access into their campus culture. We also want to celebrate your early successes with an opportunity to share what has worked and to begin to think about guided next steps.

2:45pm – 3:00pm   Wrap-up 

3:00pm   End