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Accessibility Council, Washington State University Vancouver. Records, 2016-2019.

 Collection
Identifier: Archives.DR.021

Scope and Contents

The collection's contents include minutes, presentations, notes, recommendations for making the WSU Vancouver campus inclusive and accessibile. The records address facilities, assitant technologies, and universal design among other issues.

Dates

  • 2016 - 2019

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open and available for research use.

Biographical / Historical

The WSU Vancouver Accessibility Council is established to help lead, facilitate, and promote an accessibility friendly campus for people with disabilities and those who identify as disabled. The council is in place to help assure that individuals and groups have equivalent access for participation in campus activities, services and programs. The council consists of a diverse cross-section of faculty, staff, students, and administrators with the aim of addressing areas like physical facilities access, construction, accessible technology, curricular and universal design, and event accessibility

Extent

65.6 Megabytes (3 file folders containing 34 separate files.) : These are born-digital files. Original files consisted of items in the following formats:.DOC, .DOCX, .PDF, .PPTX, .PDF, and .XLSX. The files have been normalized to the PDF format for access.

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

The collection contains born-digital records from the WSU Vancouver Accessibility Council. The date range for the bulk of the collection is from 2016 to 2019. Contents include meeting minutes, presentations, notes, and recommendation documents for the campus.

Arrangement

The arrangement is structured in three series organizing 34 digital files in three filr folders.

Accessibility Council This folder contains meeting minutes, notes, and materials presented in meetings for the WSU Vancouver Accessibility Council mostly dated between 2016 and 2017. 21 items.

Accessibility Work Group Recommendations This folder contains official recomendations reached by the Accessibility Council. It includes the executive summary of the recommendations, a full-length recommendation document and also a table of contents and cover page. 4 items.

Captioning and Other Accesibility This folder contains contents relating to captions, transcriptions, screen readers, and other assistive technologies considered useful to students. It contains both explanation of why captions can be helpful and documentation from software/platforms used by WSU Vancouver students on how to take advantage of accessibility functionality. 9 items.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The digital files were transfered to the Archives on behalf of Sue Phelps, Librarian from the WSU Vancouver Library. Phelps served on the Accessibility Council until her retirement in 2019. The collection was accessioned as UA-WSUV-2019-010 and is located as a part of the Digital Records (DR).

Title
Accessibility Council, Washington State University Vancouver. Records, 2016-2019.
Author
Nicholas Schiller and Robert Schimelpfenig
Date
March 31, 2022
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Washington State University Vancouver, Archives and Special Collections Repository

Contact:
14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave
Vancouver WA 98686 United States
360-546-9249