Northeastern Website Action Plan

Review Northeastern website to determine accessibility conformity issues.
Address and work with developers to fix all structural accessibility conformity issues within the website.
Develop and implement website accessibility best practices and provide website content and document creation training (working with Comprehensive Learning Services {CLC}) for all current website content liaisons.
Begin updating website page content (this includes written copy, video, audio, images, etc.) for accessibility beginning with most viewed pages.
Working with the CCCS office, ensure that the ACCESS NJC login page and interior pages meet accessibility standards.
Open a line of communication with websites Northeastern works with to determine their accessibility plan. (Identify Websites we work with)

To be completed by January 1, 2017:

Develop website accessibility best practices and criterion for posting of documents.
Lead website development team to ensure that the website launch has addressed structural accessibility conformity issues.
Open a line of communications with linked websites to determine their accessibility plan.
Research screen reader software.
All new documents on the website must meet accessibility standards or they will be removed from the site.
Northeastern will conduct an audit of http://njc.edu to determine remaining conformity issues and will begin addressing those issues.

To be completed by January 1, 2018:

Best practices criterion to be finalized and distributed to Northeastern employees.
All documents on the website must meet accessibility standards or they will be removed from the site.
Development of web audit plan to ensure accessibility compliance.
Partnership with website content liaisons to ensure that future content development is accessible.

To be completed by January 2019

Ongoing:

Northeastern’s web team will monitor website updates to ensure they meet accessibility standards (this includes all documents that are available within the site).
Training for website content liaisons.
Research of accessibility standards and best practices for utilization.
Northeastern will conduct ongoing audits of www.njc.edu to determine remaining conformity of website and documents within the site.
Send out bi-annual reminders to all employees stating that all web content may be compliant.