Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3341 - Bowling Green State University › Chapter 3341-6 - Compliance with Occupational Safety and Health Standards › Section 3341-6-57 - Web accessibility policy

Current through all regulations
			 passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Policy statement and purpose
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Title II of
				the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 prohibit discrimination on the
				basis of disability in programs and activities by public universities receiving
				financial assistance from the U.S. department of education. Bowling Green state
				university ("BGSU") is committed to ensuring that communication with university
				constituents with disabilities, including students, prospective students,
				employees, guests and visitors, who have hearing, visual and manual
				impairments, or who otherwise require the use of assistive technology to access
				information, is as effective as communication with those without
				disabilities.
The purpose of this policy is to ensure that all official
				university web pages and university-related web pages will permit persons with
				disabilities to acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions,
				and enjoy the same services with substantially equivalent ease of use as those
				without disabilities. All web content within the scope of this policy must be
				accessible to university constituents and must adhere to the web accessibility
				standards referred to in this policy.
(B) Policy scope
This policy applies to all information on official university
				web pages and university-related web pages, as defined within this policy,
				except for information to which access is limited by means of a password.
(C) Definitions
(1) "Official university web page." An
			 official university web page is any web page created by the university, its
			 departments, colleges, or other administrative offices for the official
			 business of the university.
(2)
			 "University-related web page." A university-related web page is any web page
			 (other than an official university web page) created by or linked from a web
			 page created by faculty, staff, students and/or registered student
			 organizations that is:
(a) Linked from an
			 official university web page;
(b)
			 Stored on one of the university-controlled web servers;
(c) Created in support of university
			 businesses and courses; or
(d) On
			 servers contracted by the university.
(3) "Content editors." authorized university
			 faculty or staff trained by the information technology services ("ITS") and
			 marketing and communications ("M&C") departments on the web accessibility
			 standards and on the approved content management system such that they are
			 approved to maintain an official university web page or a university-related
			 web page.
(4) "Web accessibility
			 training" is described at
www.bgsu.edu/learncms
. it is required
			 training conducted by staff of the ITS and M&C departments for all content
			 editors prior to having authorization to publish content on an official
			 university web page or a university-related web page.
(5) The "web accessibility coordinator" is a
			 staff member authorized to coordinate and implement the web accessibility
			 policy. BGSU will always have at least one designated web accessibility
			 coordinator. Contact information for the web accessibility coordinator is in
			 the appendix. The web accessibility complaint procedure is described at
www.bgsu.edu/web-accessibility-complaint-procedure
.
(6) The "web accessibility standards" are set
			 forth at
www.bgsu.edu/web-accessibility-standards
.
			 BGSUs web accessibility standards are drawn from w3c web accessibility
			 initiative ("WAI") and section 508 standards.
(7) "Web content" or "content" is information
			 on an official university web page or university-related web page.