Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the need and benefits of online courses and web content accessibility.
• Define important terminology including W3, W3C, WAI & WCAG.
• Introduce Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
• Explore WCAG 4 principles and examples.

Attendees will explore the importance of providing accessible content to enhance student learning. WCAG offers a way to understand accessible principles through practical concepts or principles which will be discussed in this webinar. These principles provide understandable, practical, and applied ways in which web authors, course instructors, and all institutional faculty and staff can improve accessibility of their web and online course content. 

Faculty will improve their understanding, recognition and use of these principles within online learning content and web content and be challenged to work towards full implementation.  Attendees will receive four accessibility checklists summarize the most utilized criteria of WCAG’s four principles.  

Presenter: Teresa Belluscio

Teresa’s professional career spans over 25 years in higher education with expertise in disability services, ADA law & compliance. She is presently affiliated with the University of Kentucky, Human Development Institute. Current projects include the VCU Pre-ETS Research Study, SHEP TAC (Supported Higher Education Program Technical Assistance Center) and as Director of the Summer Leadership Experience Camp, a transitions camp for Kentucky High School students with disabilities.

Prior to her work at University of Kentucky, Teresa served as the Director of the Eastern Kentucky University Disabilities Office for 20 years managing 12 professional staff and serving approximately 675 students with disabilities per year as well as overseeing employee job accommodation. She is a Board-Certified Life Coach (BCC).

Teresa has held various leadership roles in KY including Co-Chair of the Governors ADA Taskforce, and multiple Chair appointments at KY AHEAD (Association on Higher Education and Disabilities). She has presented at numerous conferences on topics related to ADA compliance, disability Law & equal access, and internationally in Belfast, Ireland and Vancouver, Canada.  

She earned a master’s degree from the University of Kentucky in Rehabilitation Counseling (MRC) and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Louisville, KY.

Moderator: Judy Spain, J.D., CCEP

Judy currently serves as the GICA Compliance Program Consultant and serves on the Board, Society for Corporate Compliance and Ethics.    She is a Professor Emeritus, an attorney licensed in Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, and is a Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional.  She served as General Counsel and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer at Eastern Kentucky University and Manhattanville College, where she developed and implemented compliance programs.  Judy is the author of the first book on higher education compliance, Higher Education Compliance:  Blueprint for Success.  Judy is also the author of Compliance Risk Assessments:  An Introduction published by the Society for Corporate Compliance and Ethics.  Her third book, Higher Education Compliance: What Governing Boards Really Need to Know is available in paperback, Kindle, and audiobook.