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What is digital accessibility? How can the research enterprise be more prepared to be inclusive of people with disabilities. What should an IRB be evaluating in terms of digital accessibility? 

Strategic Outcomes: 

• Increased awareness of digital accessibility issues
• Improved inclusion of disabled populations in UCLA’s research studies
• Positions UCLA researchers to better serve disabled populations with research outcomes (Paralympic games 2028 will be hosted at UCLA)

In this workshop the DCP will lead a training on how the design accessible data visualization for publication both into PDF and html in alignment with WCAG 2.1 AA guidance. Many people with disabilities use assistive technologies.

Web accessibility experts at the Disabilities in Computing Program (DCP) will discuss how to use automated tools to improve the accessibility of digital materials and websites. This training will discuss the role of AI in increasing digital accessibility on campus. The training will demonstrate how to use Siteimprove, an AI-powered tool, to improve website accessibility and measure impact.

Mobile Apps like websites need to be built with accessibility in mind to comply with the WCAG 2.1 standard.  Fortunately, Mobile devices themselves have a lot of accessibility features already built in.  When building  a mobile app, or working with an outside vendor to build a research app as an instrument, you should include this as a requirement upfront.  This will be more important starting in April of 2026 when new ADA compliance deadlines come into play.

Please join us for an hour-long introduction to digital accessibility. At this Zoom training session you will learn about the most important aspects for inclusion in digital spaces from UCLA's Disabilities and Computing Program (DCP). The training will take place in Travis Lee's Zoom room on December 18th 10AM-11AM

You will learn the following:

Front End Web Accessibility Engineers with the Disabilities in Computing Program will demonstrate how to use Siteimprove, an AI-powered tool, to enhance website accessibility and measure impact. This training will cover how to interact with the Siteimprove dashboard, how to use it to assess website accessibility and progress, and how to locate and fix issues with the tool. Additionally, the training will provide an opportunity to ask questions to web accessibility experts and seek support with Siteimprove and more.

As you plan and budget for your research studies, keep in mind that making your research findings accessible should be a forethought and not an afterthought. If you are going to create a website, you need to keep this in mind. Keep in mind ADA compliance reporting requirements. Strategic Outcomes: – Increased inclusivity in UCLA’s community engaged research programs. Digital research instruments and protocols should be proactively “born accessible” so as to not need remediation after the fact. Gartner predicts savings of around $100K per project.

We'll begin by providing a brief explanation on the necessity of PDF remediation. Following this, we'll demonstrate how to upload a document to Adobe Acrobat and introduce the basic tools using a simple document. We’ll start covering elementary document remediation, which is relatively quick and straightforward. Our focus will be on Alternative Text (Alt Text), heading structure, descriptive hyperlinks, the accessibility checker, and converting documents to PDF.

This training will cover the basics of building digital accessibility in website development, explaining several important issue areas to help developers make their websites more accessible from the ground-up. This training will include perspectives from employees at the Disabilities in Computing Program, highlighting disabled voices and the impact of digital accessibility while providing a roadmap of how to improve accessibility in web development.