Meeting Accessibility Needs with Campus Applications

[DGessman_USF]

My name is Daniel Gessman, and I am the GIS Administrator for the University of South Florida. We are in the process of rolling out a new Interactive Campus Map for our students, staff, and faculty this upcoming Fall semester.

We have received some questions from our Communications and Marketing folks about the app meeting accessibility needs. They are trying to determine if it meets the WCAG 2.1 Level AA standard. With some of these maps and apps we know it isn't going to meet all of the accessibility criteria, but we wanted to see how some of the folks in the higher education realm are meeting these requirements. 

USF FM GIS Maps Portal:

https://gis.usf.edu/portal/home/index.html

Feel free to reach out as well, DGessman@usf.edu. 

[BrianBaldwin]

Eh @DGessman_USF - I know you are aware of these contacts - but I just wanted to post in case others were not aware.

If anyone has additional questions related to maps and accessibility, we have an 'accessibility team' at Esri that loves to engage with customers. The reason for going through this central site, is that there are obviously a lot of different products, workflows, needs, etc. - so it helps get you to the right team more quickly (ex. screen readers vs. text to speech / mobile applications vs. ArcGIS Pro).

The bottom of the page has a 'form' which will route inquiries to an alias - which will then allow the right team members to get back with you: https://www.esri.com/en-us/accessibility/resources

The Esri product team's have also been making a lot of accessibility enhancements on the latest web applications, so searching across the ArcGIS Blog also highlights a number of updates: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/?s=#accessibility&products=browse-all