Transformation Timeline

Goals

• Establish vision & coalition for change: Formulate a clear vision for digital accessibility that aligns with University values and goals. Assemble a coalition of stakeholders from departments and divisions across the enterprise to champion this vision and drive the change process.
• Assess current state of digital accessibility: Conduct an audit of existing digital content, including websites, mobile apps, and academic courses, to identify areas to conform with the technical standard.
• Plan Initiate Phase: Plan, charge, and kick off Task Force and Action Teams.

Milestones

• Charge ADA Digital Accessibility Task Force & Action Teams
• Kick-off Task Force, Coordination Team, & Action Teams
• Share discovery summary

Goals

• Define change: Identify specific operational and organizational changes required to achieve enterprise-wide digital accessibility. Outline long-term process and practice changes.
• Identify & address quick wins: Pinpoint and begin high-impact work that can start immediately.
• Prioritize content to remediate: Develop a prioritization framework for remediating content, focusing on high-impact and high-risk content.
• Plan Build Phase: Plan for and communicate organizational changes, including stakeholder involvement , through Task Force and other communications channels.

Milestones

• Share tools and training
• Approve Implementation Plan
• Establish dashboard to track progress

Goals

• Implement change: Launch changes and new resources identified during initiation phase. Begin to put in place long-term process, policy, and practice changes.
• Innovate: Encourage the exploration and adoption of new approaches to digital accessibility.
• Remediate: Use the prioritization framework to systematically remove accessibility barriers in existing web, mobile app, and course content.
• Plan Refine Phase: Plan for and communicate new changes.  

Milestones

• Share tool and training enhancements
• Approve updates to the Implementation Plan

Goals

• Evaluate: Assess the effectiveness of implemented changes and identify areas for further improvement.
• Grow: Scale successful strategies and explore additional opportunities to build support and enhance digital accessibility.
• Iterate: Continue to review and refine processes and approaches based on gap assessments, feedback, and evolving best practices.
• Plan Transformation Phase: Begin preparing for and communicating transition to operations.

Milestones

• Share tool and training enhancements
• Kick-off Bridge Action Team
• ADA Title II Deadline: April 24, 2026

Goals

• Institutionalize: Fully integrate digital accessibility into the University’s operational framework, making it a standard of all components of the enterprise.
• Support: Reinforce new practices and processes to maintain digital accessibility across the University.
• Fund: Ensure that successful changes and resources have solid funding to support continued compliance.

Milestones

• Establish IT Digital Accessibility governance structure
• Approve operations plan