CDLE Accessibility Progress Report

Create and adopt a CDLE accessibility policy establishing expectations and procedures for developing accessible digital communications and technology.

🔵 Complete: CDLE accessibility policy adopted in January 2024

Create a CDLE accessibility statement and post it on the CDLE main web site.

🔵 Complete: Internal and external CDLE web sites and web apps include link to statement (typically in the footer)

Provide contact information and support for receiving accessibility feedback and accommodation requests.


 

🔵 Complete: Added contact information to CDLE accessibility statement

🔵 Complete: Accessibility point of contacts for designated in each CDLE division and office

🔵 Complete: Created separate inbox for incoming feedback

🔵 Complete: Created a work management space for incoming feedback to track submissions 

Conduct and maintain an inventory of technology and ensure the CDLE accessibility statement is linked, specify whether accessibility documentation or accommodation plans are needed, and assign responsible parties in charge of ensuring technology is accessible.

🟢 Ongoing: Divisions and offices working to add all items and submit accessibility documentation and/or accommodation plans

Ensure external and internal CDLE websites are prioritized, tested, and accessibility issues addressed.

🔵 Complete: Major internal and external sites have been tested.

🟢 Ongoing: Remediation of accessibility issues found during testing

In addition to manual testing of external CDLE websites, we are focused on raising Siteimprove scores.

🟢 Ongoing: Lowest score is 85.68 and highest score is 98.55

Ensure CDLE technologies are prioritized, tested for accessibility, and accessibility issues are addressed.

🟢 Ongoing: Working with vendors and responsible parties to get accessibility issues fixed through multiple updates. 

Important to note: This will always be an ongoing process as vendors cannot fix all accessibility issues in one go and new issues will come up as updates to technologies happen.

Create a formal CDLE Accessibility Champions Committee. The Committee is made up of accessibility stakeholders and experts from CDLE who discuss high-level strategic portions of the effort and help ensure CDLE divisions and offices are on track for accessibility compliance.

🔵 Complete: Committee has been meeting since November 2023

Procurement and vendor management: Integrate accessibility criteria into all of its solicitation, evaluation and contract processes and use these processes to improve the accessibility of our product/service offerings.

🔵 Complete: Expectations on accessibility criteria have been set with CDLE staff and vendors beginning December 2024.

🟢 Ongoing: Ensuring the process to procure is accessible for internal and external users.

Create and implement a plan for providing reasonable accommodation and modification until the technology can be made accessible. 

🔵 Complete: Equally effective access plans (EEAAP).

Hire people with accessibility skills and train current employees on providing accessible services and technology.

🔵 Complete: Created an internal accessibility website with resources and guides for staff

🔵 Complete: Various online accessibility training offered on CDLE learning management system

🔵 Complete: Training for all staff by Level Access (accessibility vendor) completed May 2024 through September 2024, with recordings and resources available to staff.

🟢 Ongoing: Additional accessibility training offered on as need basis or as budget allows

Create accessibility goals and expectations for employees that support professional growth.


 

🔵 Complete: Goals and expectations are set in employee performance evaluations
 

🔵 Complete: Expectations are set in CDLE accessibility policy

Incorporate accessibility requirements into our technology development stages including design, development, user experience and quality assurance.

🔵 Complete: Current vendors are incorporating accessibility into their process

🔵 Complete: Contract and statement of work languages updated to include state accessibility requirements with new vendors

Create and post on front-facing web pages a progress-to-date report that is updated quarterly and demonstrates concrete and specific efforts toward compliance with the OIT rules.

🔵 Complete: This page.