Hi, EDUsers,
My name’s Sean---I’m the fellowships/scholarships advisor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. I’m reaching out to all of you Airtable EDU experts with a question about accessibility and WCAG compliance.
Some background: I use Airtable for awards/fellowships tracking, on the back end to automate student contact points, and on the front end via a public database of award opportunities students can explore. I’m a one-man team charged with advising several thousand students, so Airtable has been crucial to my scaling up my capacity for advising.
My state-funded, public university has scrambled over the past year to update our student- and public-facing resources to WCAG 2.1 standards, in line with the latest Title II digital accessibility rules. For most offices, this has meant new PDFs, new website content, different PowerPoints, and so on. For me, this has meant figuring out how to make the external components of Airtable (forms and interfaces, especially) digitally accessible. And I can’t imagine I’m the only one doing so!
For those of you in public institutions similarly affected by the new digital accessibility requirements: How are all of you navigating the Title II rules? Are you turning to Airtable extensions, templates, apps to meet the web accessibility guidelines? Has anyone had any luck reaching out to Airtable’s support team about accessibility updates?
Many thanks in advance for your shared expertise!
