October 21, 2020 Delivery WG Call Notes

Attendees

Zac, Brian, Chris, Kara, Ashley, Jonathan, Sarah

Agenda

1. Instructors list next steps
2. Evaluation next steps
3. ADA compliance update and next steps

Call Notes

ADA Compliance

• Resources from EPA: how to make a PPT compliant, and how to make a training compliant; it’s a broad requirement
• Checklist
• EPA 508 compliance website
• GSA 508 compliance website
• Independent Living Research Utilization (ILRU.org)
• Compliance risk Issues
  • Accessibility
  • Legal liability
  • There’s a break for historic materials
  • Good faith efforts, if historic, do our best to make compliant
• State of TX may be able to work with us on ADA information; program information and also have legal contacts who could give the states perspective
  • Need to identify exactly what we would like
• What’s a good faith effort? EPA is migrating from APTI-Learn legacy self-instructional course work; working on making it more user friendly and minimally ADA compliant, e.g., alt text for screen readers
  • EPA doesn’t have resources to update courses now, from content format or 508; 3-year plan will update courses on a priority basis
  • Good faith: PDFs converted into a more useable format, some are 450 pages from 1982 and not able to work on
• Self-instructional
• NOWCC materials - if a course is slated to be updated as part of the 3-year plan, EPA will make course 508 compliant
• Delivery (live instruction) - what efforts are being made in that regard, is there a check list or best practices?
• APTI-Learn - need to get instructors to update materials for ADA compliance
• Can we distinguish what metadata should be available for ADA compliance of materials?
• Have to provide an alt if the materials aren’t compliant, even if it’s just a phone number
• Compliance areas:
  • Materials: self-instructional, NOWCC, APTI
  • Delivery: screen readers and captioning in online delivery platforms
• Need a separate session on ADA compliance at fall meeting, sooner than later
• Good faith principles to govern the updates
• Can we update the materials with interns, rather than contractors?
• What’s the information that we need to lay out for the training programs and coordinators; what’s the plan?
• CenSARA hired a TCEQ employee, ex-training coord, teaches PPT for CenSARA; she teaches ADA compliance, understands what the states are doing and knows compliance
• If there is a need for a legal contact, TCEQ can help