Digital Accessibility Consulting Services

The vendors to provide digital accessibility consulting, advisory, project management, assessment, and implementation support services to support University wide compliance with applicable federal and state accessibility requirements.
• Contractor shall provide expert digital accessibility advisory services to strengthen institutional practices across the university’s digital assets and documents, technology procurement, barrier reporting, and governance workflows to assist with reducing compliance risk, and establishing sustainable, legally defensible practices that ensure equitable access to digital information, systems, and services.
• Support should include but not limited to reviews of existing digital assets and policies, guidance to leadership, and advising on a prioritized digital accessibility roadmap.
• Services will include strategic planning, accessibility governance, policy development, accessibility assessments, procurement reviews, training, document and media consulting, web accessibility support, and related professional services.
• Digital Accessibility Strategy and Governance
Provide consulting and advisory services related to institutional digital accessibility strategy, governance structures, policy development, compliance planning, risk mitigation, and accessibility program maturity assessments.
Services may include:
• Assess current institutional accessibility practices, governance, and risk exposure
• Provide guidance for institutional priorities for long-term digital accessibility sustainability
• Identify systemic gaps, high risk compliance areas, and existing strengths
• Advise on a comprehensive prioritized Digital Accessibility Strategic Roadmap
• Recommend governance structures, roles, responsibilities and cross unit coordination models
• Provide policy and practice guidance aligned with ADA Title II and Section 504 requirements
• Digital Document and Media Accessibility:
Provide consulting services related to digital document and media accessibility and remediation programs.
Services may include:
• PDF, document, and media accessibility assessments and workflow reviews
• Remediation planning and standards development
• Tool and process evaluations
• Review current captioning and audio description practices, tools, vendors, and standards
• Identify compliance gaps and scalability risks
• Recommend sustainable, compliant media accessibility workflows
• Document and media accessibility program support and recommendations
• Undue Burden, Fundamental Alteration, and Barrier Reporting Compliance Reviews
Provide accessibility assessments and consulting services related to websites, applications, digital content, enterprise systems, and technology platforms. Provide guidance on ADA-compliant undue burden and fundamental alteration reviews, and support development of processes.
• Procurement Accessibility
Provide consulting services supporting accessibility considerations during technology procurement.