Building Accessibility Into IT Procurement

By David Raths, Campus Technology

Michigan State has developed rubrics and procedures to help its information technology procurement officers evaluate products’ accessibility more effectively. “Essentially, the university purchases a lot of things, and we need to be able to provide a certain level of engagement in terms of accessibility with all those things,” said James Jackson, Electronic Information Technology (EIT) accessibility coordinator for MSU IT Services. But MSU’s resources are limited, especially with the central team that has the highest degree of knowledge about what constitutes an accessible product. University leaders decided to create a process in which almost every product gets assessed, with particular focus on products that are going to have the highest degree of impact.

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