{"id":842,"date":"2026-04-08T09:34:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/accessibility\/?page_id=842"},"modified":"2026-11-02T14:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T20:05:12","slug":"our-plan-to-ensure-digital-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/accessibility\/our-plan-to-ensure-digital-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Plan to Ensure Digital Accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection>\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\tclass=\"site-section site-panel__wysiwyg panel panel-wysiwyg site-section__bg--normal\"\n\t\t\tdata-depth=\"\"\n\t\t\tdata-js-panel=\"wysiwyg\"\n\t\t>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"site-section__inner l-wrapper \">\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t<div class=\"site-section__content \">\n\t\t<div class=\"site-grid site-grid__wrapper site-grid__wrapper-stagger\"\n\t\t\t data-depth=\"0\"\n\t\t\t data-name=\"columns\"\n\t\t\t data-livetext>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"site-grid__col\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"site-panel__wysiwyg-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"t-content \"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t data-depth=\"0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t data-index=\"0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t data-autop=\"true\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t data-name=\"column_content\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: bold; padding: 4px; text-transform: uppercase; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; border: 2px solid #6e3a5d; background-color: #f6c167; color: #6e3a5d; font-size: 16px; border-radius: 50px;\">\u00a0Phase 1\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"color: #6e3a5d; font-size: 35px; font-weight: 675; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: -15px; text-align: left;\">Creating a Digital Accessibility Team and Technical Updates<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: 500; line-height: .2; color: #242421; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Digital Accessibility Team:<\/strong> College leaders appointed a cross-functional team of staff members to a Digital Accessibility Team that will lead efforts to ensure digital accessibility and compliance. The members of this team are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: 500; line-height: .2; color: #242421; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Laura Knobel-Piehl<\/strong>, Academic Technology Operations Analyst<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: 500; line-height: .2; color: #242421; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Bret Farley<\/strong>, Web Developer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: 500; line-height: .2; color: #242421; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Daniel Hollerung<\/strong>, Associate Director of Digital Marketing<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: 500; line-height: .2; color: #242421; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Kirk Martinson<\/strong>, Instructional Technologist for Languages<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: 500; line-height: .2; color: #242421; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Molly Huber<\/strong>, Head of Distinctive Collections and Collections Strategy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: 500; line-height: .2; color: #242421; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Ashley Opatrny<\/strong>, Accommodations Coordinator<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: 500; line-height: .2; color: #242421; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Rachael Nutt<\/strong>, Distinctive Collections Engagement Librarian<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: 500; line-height: .2; color: #242421; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Identification of Relevant Content:<\/strong> The Digital Accessibility Team used analytics to identify and prioritize high-traffic, public-facing content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: 500; line-height: .2; color: #242421; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Technical Theme Updates:<\/strong> The college&#8217;s Web Team began fixing accessibility errors within the St. Olaf WordPress theme to resolve navigation and structural issues across the entire network in 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: bold; padding: 4px; text-transform: uppercase; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; border: 2px solid #6e3a5d; background-color: #f6c167; color: #6e3a5d; font-size: 16px; border-radius: 50px;\">\u00a0Phase 2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"color: #6e3a5d; font-size: 35px; font-weight: 675; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: -15px; text-align: left;\">Development of Tools and Training<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: 500; line-height: .2; color: #242421; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Training Modules:<\/strong> The Digital Accessibility Team is creating &#8220;mini-modules&#8221; specific to the St. Olaf WordPress environment that will be used to train Key Website Administrators (&#8220;Key Admins&#8221;) on ensuring that the sites they oversee are accessible and compliant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: 500; line-height: .2; color: #242421; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Instruction on Fixes:<\/strong> The Digital Accessibility Team is creating &#8220;how-to&#8221; videos and documentation on the &#8220;Using WordPress&#8221; site for common accessibility fixes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: 500; line-height: .2; color: #242421; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Adobe License System:<\/strong> IT launched a daily checkout system for Adobe Acrobat Pro licenses to a select list of users across campus who can use this tool to fix PDFs and other files that are not accessible. All Key Admins will receive training on how PDF accessibility will be managed since not all campus community members will have access to Adobe Acrobat Pro; a select list of users received an email about this system in March 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: bold; padding: 4px; text-transform: uppercase; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; border: 2px solid #6e3a5d; background-color: #f6c167; color: #6e3a5d; font-size: 16px; border-radius: 50px;\">\u00a0Phase 3\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"color: #6e3a5d; font-size: 35px; font-weight: 675; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: -15px; text-align: left;\">Rollout and Certification<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: 500; line-height: .2; color: #242421; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Mandatory Training Launch:<\/strong> The Digital Accessibility Team will begin administering the training modules to all staff who have web editing access in April 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: 500; line-height: .2; color: #242421; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Restriction of Editing Access:<\/strong> At the same time, a policy will be implemented that web editing access is withheld until the employee has earned the &#8220;Certification of Training in Digital Accessibility.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: 500; line-height: .2; color: #242421; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Intermediate Refreshers:<\/strong> The Digital Accessibility Team will complete &#8220;WordPress training refreshers&#8221; for academic and administrative staff (AAA\/AA).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: 500; line-height: .2; color: #242421; font-size: 18px;\">View our Training Session offerings page to find a list of upcoming training sessions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn--xs\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/accessibility\/training-and-certification\/\" rel=\"noopener\">TRAINING SESSIONS<\/a><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 100%;\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: bold; padding: 4px; text-transform: uppercase; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; border: 2px solid #6e3a5d; background-color: #f6c167; color: #6e3a5d; font-size: 16px; border-radius: 50px;\">\u00a0Phase 4\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"color: #6e3a5d; font-size: 35px; font-weight: 675; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: -15px; text-align: left;\">Active Remediation<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: 500; line-height: .2; color: #242421; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Site-by-Site Audits:<\/strong> Certified Key Admins will begin page-by-page audits of their designated sites using the Accessibility Checker plugin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: 500; line-height: .2; color: #242421; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>PDF Remediation:<\/strong> Key Admins will utilize the Adobe Acrobat checkout system to update existing PDFs for accessibility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: 500; line-height: .2; 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