Inclusive Excellence
Division/School Actions

Accessible Web Tools

Assure digital content is accessible to prospective and current students, faculty, and staff reflecting an inclusive campus culture and commitment to increase access and retention of marginalized and underrepresented students and employees.

Implementation Strategies and Actions

• Work with the Office of Accessibility Services (OAS) to obtain feedback from students, faculty & staff to find out if WPI’s web-based tools meet their needs for accessibility.
  Completed

  Start Date

  Spring 2021

  End Date

  Spring 2023

  Current Status

  Completed

  Measures of Success

  • Work with OAS and ATC to create a survey to collect feedback/suggestions from the WPI community regarding web-based accessibility issues.
  • The survey will be sent out to a targeted list of individuals as determined by OAS
  • Feedback will be dispersed to the appropriate department (Marketing or Information Technology) for implementation.
  • Survey will be sent annually to address any new issues that arise
• On WPI.edu, post and monitor content that meets WCAG website accessibility standards.
  Completed

  Start Date

  Spring 2021

  End Date

  Spring 2023

  Current Status

  Completed

  Measures of Success

  • Use 3rd party tools to measure website accessibility to ensure that we continue to meet accessibility standards.
• Educate our website editors on website accessibility rules
  Completed

  Start Date

  Spring 2021

  End Date

  Spring 2023

  Current Status

  Completed

  Measures of Success

  • Use Drupal training and quarterly newsletter to educate editors.