Is your school meeting the accessibility and inclusion laws set forth in ADA Title II and Section 504?
Are you in the midst of an OCR investigation?
Do you see the need for seamless accessibility and inclusion for your digital properties?
Adally Inclusion and Accessibility - Education (IAX-edu)
Inclusion & Accessibility Experience - Education
Adally has created a digital accessibility software solution for schools and school districts that makes sure your digital properties are staying compliant 24/7. Our ADA monitoring and compliance solution will help you stay within the Section 504 Title II laws as well as WCAG 2.1 AA and those enforced by the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and Department of Justice (DOJ).
Children and parents with disabilities deserve equal access and inclusion to all of a school and districts content and information. The U.S. Department of Education (ED). Section 504 provides: “No otherwise qualified individual with a disability in the United States . . . shall, solely by reason of her or his disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance . . . .”
Helping those with disabilities gain equal access to your websites content and information is morally and ethically, and lawfully correct. Adally is excited to be your partner regarding accessibility and inclusion to all those that seek it.
Adally is the only web accessibility solution that identifies, fixes and continuously monitors your digital accessibility for errors 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Learn more about us and our solutions on the following pages.
DIGITAL ADA IN SCHOOLS LINKS
- June 2010, the DOJ and the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued a Joint Dear Colleague Letter (“DCL”) to College and University Presidents stating that “[r]equiring the use of an emerging technology in a classroom environment when the technology is inaccessible to an entire population of individuals with disabilities . . . is discrimination prohibited by the [ADA and Section 504].” – https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-20100629.pdf
- Examples of basic problems with web design are described by theADA Best Practices Tool Kit for State and Local Governments published by the U.S. Department of Labor, see Chapter 5 available at: https://www.ada.gov/pcatoolkit/chap5toolkit.htm
- On June 29, 2016, the OCR reported that it “ha[d] reached settlements with education organizations in seven states and one territory to ensure website accessibility for people with disabilities.” –
http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/settlements-reached-seven-states-one-territory-ensure-website-accessibility-people-disabilities
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