How far down does the responsibility go? Are personal Web pages affected?
Because there are so many pages on university Web sites, we’ve taken the approach that the responsibility belongs to the university faculty and staff members who sponsor and develop Web sites. Realistically, only they can and should respond to the state’s policy. It’s not practical to have a single designated group of information-technology professionals attempt to address the accessibility of all of the university’s Web sites. Aside from the sheer magnitude of such an undertaking, it wouldn’t work from a service perspective. Only the sponsors and developers of the sites understand the information needs the sites are intended to fulfill. Only the sponsors and developers can and should modify the sites, if necessary, to make them accessible. Personal Web pages are not affected-if you mean those pages that serve no educational or administrative purpose. What is the University doing to help departments and individuals meet the mandate? Appropriately, we’ve launched a Web site http://wings
