Digital accessibility at KTH

The project presents measures to increase awareness and knowledge of digital accessibility with the goal of eventually establishing practice for students' digital educational environment and teacher communication. Some suggested activities:

• An online course about digital accessibility.
• Support for teachers, where the activities need to be coordinated within a special project group containing the Platform Steering Group, Studadm and E-learning. A selection of the planned activities are:
  • Compile recommendations on how teachers make teaching and course materials available and how to treat students.
  • Further develop accessibility as an aspect of e-learning and student education materials and templates.
  • Educate Local support in how course materials are made available with the goal that they can support hands-on.

Project members:  Åsa Lindström  and Tecla Malmström

The project gives a proposal for a clear editorial organisation with responsibility roles that will apply to the entire KTH. Objectives of the project:

• Develop a structure for support and collaboration between the different levels of editors and webmasters.
• Define the competence requirements for each role.
• Develop a proposal for training support for web publishing.
• Release resources by having fewer people do more.
• Mutual respect between different employees' functions and competencies.
• Clearer processes.
• Clarity with the schools about what is expected of them and what GVS assists with.

Project members:   Sara Öhman , Sara Gunningberg  and Ulrika Georgsson

The project members are responsible for KTH's annual Accessibility Report, which is then approved by the steering group for digital accessibility. The work includes:

• to collect information from various system owners at KTH for the Accessibility Report,
• to annually revise the Accessibility Report,
• to introduce remaining shortcomings in the IT department's budget and development planning.
• At present, KTH's websites and apps mainly have shortcomings on the content side and only a few shortcomings that require technical development.

Project members: Robert Lawesson and Joakim Petersson

An important part of the work with digital accessibility is about increasing awareness and knowledge. Examples of communication initiatives to be disseminated on intranets and in internal newsletters:

• Advertising for KTH's document templates, canvas templates and film tools.
• Articles that inspire and engage.
• Clear guidelines.
• Think crowdsourcing, where colleagueas at KTH can share tips and tricks with eachother.
• Website for external and internal target group around the work.

Project members: Ulrika Georgsson