Self-Eval

Pages pertaining to the Americans with Disabilities Act Self-Evaluation.

Physical Space

Description

This section addresses accessibility in the office space.

Recommendations Develop practices to ensure that your physical office space set up is accessible, e.g. clear floor space, and provide guidance to any employees who may have responsibility for maintaining these areas. Check with UC Berkeley Disability Access & Compliance regarding accessibility of the spaces that are open to the public (e.g. for on-site services) If there is any construction being done to your office areas, make efforts to ensure that there are accessible routes and spaces available for people...

Press and Public Information

Description

This section addresses accessibility for disabled people, when campus communicates information to the public directly or through an external media entity. Public Information Officers is a term our auditor used to refer to people who execute this role. However, at Berkeley this is not a role held by one person. Instead, campus' Communications and Public Affairs staff across multiple units executes this role.

Recommendations For all instances where your office utilizes a Public Information Officer to communicate with the press, ensure that captioning is provided. Ensure that...

Library Services

Description

This section examines accessible practices within the context of Library services (both the main Library, and archival material that functionally services as Library material throughout the University).

Recommendations Ensure that Library employees are trained to assist disabled library users, including with physical and digital research. Ensure that electronic information systems, software and other resources for library users and/or employees are accessible to disabled users, too. If applicable, ensure that notification systems are discernable to disabled library users...

Community Disability Resources off and on Campus

Description

On the survey this section originally examined only general familiarity with campus disability-related resources. It has been expanded to consider off-campus resources, too.

Recommendations Familiarize your employees regarding UC Berkeley campus disability resources Training

Leads should take the training themselves, then assign it to those employees in their unit for whom they believe it is relevant. Assigning to all employees is recommended. Any processes, procedures or protocols recommended for development in the training should be created.

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Museum Services

Description

This section examines accessible practices in ensuring that museum exhibits and materials are available to persons with disabilities.

Recommendations Ensure that museum employees have guidance regarding how to make and provide accessible museum materials. Provide training to museum employees with training to assist variously disabled museum visitors. In order to facilitate maximum accessibility, incorporate alternative forms of communication for exhibits, e.g. audio-descriptors, braille, large print text, tactile exhibits, and/or haptic technology. Ensure the museum's...

Miscellaneous Services, Programs and Activities

Description

This section encourages reflection on how to increase outreach to, and inclusion of, disabled people in your organization’s programs, services, and activities (‘PSAs’).

Recommendations Consider adding outreach to disabled people and/or disability inclusion efforts into your unit’s programs, services and activities. Ways to do this include, but are not limited to: adding affirmative language to outreach materials; and partnering with other organizations and entities (e.g. non-profit organizations, student groups,...

Instructors

Description

This section examines instructor* practices around ensuring maximum curriculum accessibility.

*including faculty, lecturers, GSIs and other instructor titles

Recommendations

Develop a practice to ensure that students are informed that they can request a reasonable academic accommodation for disability and describe how/where they can submit their request. Develop practices to ensure all curricula is accessible, including both physical and digital materials (e.g., website references, PDFs, videos, etc.) for...

Atypical Educational Settings (placements, laboratories, study abroad)

Description

This section examines accessibility in diverse educational settings, and in curriculum that may utilize specialized equipment.

Recommendations Develop a practice of requesting internship hosts and laboratory PIs to provide information regarding the accessibility of their built and digital environments. Develop a plan to ensure a prompt, adequate response to a student with a disability who requests and/or requires reasonable accommodation with an internship host and/or laboratory PI. Ensure that accessibility of equipment is consistently considered in the process of...

Addiction as Disability

Description

This section examines law and policy prohibiting discrimination against people based on their current or past status with substance use and substance use disorder (e.g., drugs or alcohol).

Recommendations Ensure employees, especially managers and supervisors, are aware of the UCOP policy that prohibits discrimination against people based on their current or past status as a drug or alcohol addict (https://sa.berkeley.edu/uga/substance) Training

Leads should take the training themselves, then assign it...

Student Housing and Dining

Description

This section examines accessibility in University dining and housing.

Recommendations Provide relevant employees training regarding the university’s dining and housing related responsibilities and obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Fair Housing Act, and all disability-related California statutes, and case law. Ensure that students are aware that they may request reasonable accommodations in student housing at any time during the year, and that they are informed of this in accessible formats. Ensure that all employees are aware that costs associated...