Why Are We Updating Our Digital Accessibility Practices?
Our campus and LAS need to ensure that digital materials such as course content, data, software, and website content comply with the ADA Title II Accessibility Rules by April 2026. This is a college-wide priority for LAS.
What Support is Available?
ATLAS is here to support you. Email our Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) team.
For All Courses That Enroll More Than 200 Learners
Following the campus lead, LAS will prioritize proactive work on large-enrollment face-to-face and online courses. We will begin reaching out to Executive Officers, coordinators, and instructors for our largest courses to develop course-specific remediation plans. This support will include TLT staff reviewing course content in Canvas, Moodle, and PrairieLearn. Our team will work collaboratively with instructors to make sure content meets Title II accessibility requirements without changing the meaning of your content.
For All Other Courses
We encourage everyone to take advantage of the training workshops hosted by the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL) and offered by experts from across campus (including members of the TLT team). These workshops will equip you with basic skills that will address most foundational accessibility requirements.
Other resources (more details to follow):
- Our ATLAS Help Desk staff is currently being trained on Digital Accessibility, including completing CITL’s Quick Start Accessibility Workshops, so you can set up consultation sessions and/or receive walk-in assistance on your specific situation.
Discipline-Specific Content
ATLAS is partnering with other campus experts to ensure we can help with challenges that have been identified in faculty focus groups we hosted in April 2025. Specifically, we are working with others on campus to compile resources that address accessibility issues in STEM courses and multilingual courses.
What Should I Do As Faculty?
- Check out the ATLAS Monthly Newsletter for more communication about accessiblity.
- Attend or watch workshop offerings (including recordings) through CITL.
- Review CITL's resources on how to Make Your Course Accessible.
- Review Illinois Minimum Digital Accessibility Standards.
Who Can I Contact With Questions?
Julie Baker, PhD
Assistant Director of Digital Learning Assessment
ITAL, Lead Digital Accessibility Course Consultant
LAS Computer-Based Testing Facility (CBTF) Liaison
juliemb@illinois.edu
Maggie Jarvis
Senior Web Services Specialist
Main contact for LAS Websites Accessibility Support
las-web@illinois.edu
IT Accessibility Liaisons are individuals embedded within campus units to help answer questions and share resources about how to make content digitally accessible. More information can be found on the campus ITAL website.
ATLAS will be working with academic units to identify individuals who might be good candidates to be ITALs. If you are interested in becoming an ITAL for your unit, please feel free to contact Julie Baker.
