Rethinking Accessibility Success: Tracking Barriers, Not Scores

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 | 9:45AM–10:30AM CT | EDUCAUSE Commons, Cybersecurity & Privacy Central, Poster Area
Session Type: Poster Session
Delivery Format: Poster
Most accessibility tools tie your success to a paid license—stop paying, and your progress disappears. This session introduces a new approach: measuring accessibility success through open-source markers that track actual barriers to access, not abstract scores. I’ll share how we’re building the University of Illinois Chicago’s web accessibility program around blockers—issues that prevent disabled users from accessing content—and how this approach creates sustainable, transparent, and vendor-free progress.

Presenters

  • Blake Bertuccelli-Booth

    University of Illinois Chicago