NYS Forum IT Accessibility Committee Meeting

January 8, 2009, 2:30-4:00 p.m.
Forum Offices, 411 State Street

Attendees: Marilyn Cordell (OFT), Laura Edlund (AT&T), Kim Fraim (DOH), Michael Hritcko (SIF), Joel Obuchowski (INS), Debi Orton (GOER), Lisa Rosano-Kaczkowski (Commission on Quality of Care and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities).

Old Business:

  1. Agency Consulting:
    1. OFT: We are challenged with getting the necessary funding to continue the use of the Validation tool. Only a handful of agency CIOs wrote to provide support. We have the following steps to try and gain approval.
      1. Marilyn to write letter to Melody and then ask Greg, Mike and Debi to meet with her to address further.
      2. Debi/Marilyn to write a business case for the validation tool.
      3. If we still find no support for validation tool, suggest accelerating the review cycle to adopt Section 508 as NYS standard. Debi will draft a document comparing the NYS Policy/Standard with the Federal 508.

New Business:

  1. Upcoming Presentations:
    1. Accessibility for Executives: Health (Dee McCumber) volunteered to use their department as a best practice example in the session. Dee could not attend meeting and will send her Powerpoint file to Debi and Mike for review. After review, Debi will work with Dee to try and schedule the session.


  2. Discussions about the remainder of the Forum program year:
    1. Debi still is working on the planning for a session on "How to create an accessible PDF".

Next Meeting:

February 12, 2009
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Location: 411 State St., Albany, NY