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Creating a Digital Accessibility Program in Higher Education: Jesse Loesberg

August 6 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am CDT
Free
Creating a Digital Accessibility Program in Higher Education: Jesse Loesberg on Thursday, August 6, 2026.
At the University of California, Berkeley Library, digital accessibility has become an essential part of providing equitable access to information and services.

In this presentation, Jesse Loesberg will give you an inside look at how the library built and implemented a digital accessibility program following a Title II ADA lawsuit and a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice.

Along the way, you’ll learn about the legal and institutional factors that shaped the program, including Berkeley’s unique relationship with the disability rights movement and the realities of introducing accessibility initiatives within a large academic and library environment. Jesse will also dive into the practical side of accessibility work, covering everything from developing processes and policies to collaborating with external vendors whose accessibility commitments may not always align with your own.

Learning Outcomes:
• Practical approaches to designing and implementing a digital accessibility program
• The challenges and opportunities such a program presents
• Techniques for communicating with external vendors
• A portrait of how one very large academic institution dealt with an ADA lawsuit

These meetups take place via Zoom and are live captioned. You must register to attend via Zoom.

About the Speaker

Jesse Loesberg is a web developer, digital accessibility expert, and public speaker. His presentations on disability and technology address issues from fostering an accessibility-forward workplace culture to the nuts and bolts of building compliant websites and applications. He is currently the web developer and digital accessibility program manager for the UC Berkeley Library. When he’s not working to make the web a more accessible place, he’s playing piano, brewing beer, knitting, starting a new fermentation project, or going to horror movies with his awesome teenage kids.

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Accessibility & Accommodations

This meetup will be held virtually over Zoom and live captioned, thanks to our sponsors. Slide links will be provided when applicable, and presenters are encouraged to make slides as accessible as possible with alternative text for images, etc.

We’re working to secure sponsors so that we can offer ASL interpretation.

All are welcome to attend. If you need specific accommodations to make this meetup work for you, please contact us and we will try our best to accommodate you.

Code of Conduct

Please note that this group is a welcoming space for all. As this event is part of the official WordPress Meetup program, all attendees must follow the WordPress Online Code of Conduct.

By RSVPing to this meetup, you agree to abide by these guidelines. If you have concerns that the Online Code of Conduct is not being followed, don’t hesitate to get in touch with an organizer.

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