Accessible to All

The University of Nevada, Reno is committed to diversity and to ensuring that our programs, services and activities are accessible to all

Pennington Student Achievement Center
The William N. Pennington Student Achievement Center viewed from the south with students stiting on its stairs.

 

Accessibility Overview

What is accessibility?

"Accessible" means that individuals with disabilities are able to independently acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same services within the same time frame as individuals without disabilities, with substantially equivalent ease of use.

How is accessibility measured?

The University measures online content accessibility and functionality according to The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA and the Web Accessibility Initiative Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite (WAI-ARIA) 1.0 techniques for web content. Additionally, the University seeks to achieve adherence to and conformance with the following standards (where possible):

Who is responsible for ensuring accessibility compliance?

Technology accessibility is an institution-wide responsibility. Technology access for individuals with disabilities must provide comparable functionality, affordability, accuracy of content and timeliness of service delivery. Products and services must be usable by the greatest number of people including individuals with disabilities.

Each college, administrative unit, faculty member, and employee is responsible to ensure compliance and, if notified of non-compliance, is required to remediate.

The Office of the Provost oversees the implementation of and compliance with the ICT Accessibility Policy. The Executive Vice President & Provost, or designee, shall appoint a standing ICT Accessibility Committee to coordinate those efforts.

Is accessibility training required?

Consistent with the Corrective Action Plan, the University currently offers and requires annual participation in website accessibility training for academic faculty and anyone responsible for developing, loading, maintaining, or auditing web content and functionality. Until such time as OCR closes its monitoring of this agreement, the University will submit to OCR on a quarterly basis documentation of this training and other measures taken.

Who do I contact with questions or for assistance with accessibility?

For assistance with accessibility, or to report an issue, please use the  Accessibility Help Form. The form is setup to automatically route your request to the appropriate individual(s) who can best assist you with your request.

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Accessibility Resources

This website serves as the University's repository for information, updates and resources for accessible technology. As a campus community, we are tasked with ensuring that technology, from websites to videos, software to hardware, are accessible and can be used productively by users with disabilities.

Websites/Web Content

Guides

Services

  • Website remediation services are available for a fee through QA Info Tech.

Documents

Guides

Services

Videos

Guides

Services

  • Video remediation (captioning) services are available for non-instructional content through 3Play Media.
  • Captioning services for instructional content is available through Teaching & Learning Technologies.  Please email captions@unr.edu or call (775) 682-6798.

Procurement

Guides

Services

 

Accessibility Assistance

The University of Nevada, Reno provides assistance with accessibility issues by category and audience. Please review the options below and follow the instructions provided.

Academic

Office of Digital Learning (ODL) offers accessibility training for academic faculty and anyone responsible for developing, loading, maintaining, or auditing web content and functionality.

ODL will work with faculty to help address their accessibility question and concerns, and ODL provides video captioning and audio transcription for instructional content.

Contact ODL: (775) 682-6798 for individual or group trainings/assistance, or self-enroll at the ODL Workshops and Training page. Email captions@unr.edu for captioning or transcription.

Administrative

For assistance with accessibility, or to ask a general question, please use the Accessibility Help Form. The form is set up to automatically route your request to the appropriate individual(s) who can best assist you with your request.

If you have questions or concerns regarding web content, documents, or multimedia within the Content Management System (CMS) managed by the Office of Marketing & Communications, please email cms@unr.edu.

If you have questions or concerns regarding web content, documents, or multimedia outside the Content Management System (CMS), please contact the designated Digital Accessibility Liaison for your college, division or unit.

Students

Accessible content will serve the needs of most individuals. If you have a student with an accommodation request or specific need, please encourage the student to contact the Disability Resource Center (DRC) to arrange any accommodations they may require.

The Disability Resource Center (DRC) is located within the Pennington Student Achievement Center, Suite 230.  You can reach the DRC by phone at: (775) 784-6000.

Public

For assistance with accessibility, or to report an issue, please use the Accessibility Help Form.  The form is setup to automatically route your request to the appropriate individual(s) who can best assist you with your request.

If you believe you or others have been discriminated against in connection with the University's website accessibility, you may file a formal complaint with the University alleging discrimination under Section 504 and Title II of the ADA using the form on the complaint page. The formal complaint will be forwarded to the University's Equal Opportunity and Title IX office.

 

Information & Communication Technology (ICT) Committee Members

Technology accessibility is an institution-wide responsibility. To help the University achieve accessibility compliance, the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) committee was formed to bring together the talented and dedicated professionals who are best positioned to lead the effort. View list of individuals who are part of the ICT Committee.

 

ICT Subcommittees and Chairs

Below is an organization chart of the active subcommittees under the campus ICT Committee and their respective Chairs.

  • Sasi Pillay Chair, Information & Communication Technology (ICT) Committee
    • Ed Huffman Chair, Instructional Materials Subcommittee
    • Linda Kopecky Co-Chair, Research & Scholarly Works Subcommittee
    • Shiva Pourgholaminejad Chair, Software Subcommittee
    • Kalena Pelekai-Wai Chair, Web Subcommittee kpelekai-wai@unr.edu