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Colleges and universities have long been responsible for ensuring that persons with disabilities have equitable access to educational opportunities as well as the campus workplace. Federal and state laws require it. As technology has become ever more central to the development and delivery of institutional programs, resources, and services, the importance of providing an accessible technology environment across a college or university has grown. To the extent that technology is critical to the core functions of the institution, the accessibility of that technology to persons with disabilities has become a key factor in determining whether facilities, programs, and services are accessible to them.

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2010 Managing Online Education Survey: November 17, 2010

This executive summary and video from the November 12th WCET conference presentation discuss the following topics concerning online education; enrollment trends in online education tui…
7 Things You Should Know About Mobile App Development: April 19, 2011

Users increasingly expect to be able to do virtually everything on a mobile device that they can do on a laptop (if not more ). The initial decision point for any mobile development program…
A Different Kind of ERP: Extending and Renewing Legacy Systems: March 4, 2003

Rather than make the significant investment required for an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, some campuses explicitly choose a strategy of retaining and renewing their legacy systems. T…
Accessibility: Accessibility True Colleges and universities have long…
Accessibility - What's required? What's appropriate?: February 23, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE West/Southwest Regional Conference 2011
February 23, 2011 WSWRC11_222896 …
Accessibility A Major Topic at EDUCAUSE 2012: August 29, 2012

With a couple of months to go before the EDUCAUSE 2012 Annual Conference opens on November 6 in Denver, Colorado (and online ), I wanted to highlight the large number of sessions focusing …
Accessibility and Usability: Working Together at MIT: April 4, 2012

The usability and accessibility teams in MIT’s Department of Information Services and Technology have always worked closely together, but were formally merged during a department-wide reorgani…
Accessibility and Usability: Working Together at MIT: March 14, 2012 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2012
The Usability and Accessibility teams in MIT's Information Services and Technology Department (IS&T) always worked closely together but were formally merged during a department-wide reorga…
Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free Multimedia: January 1, 2007

The Western Kentucky University (WKU) Office of Distance Learning was created in 2000 to provide faculty teaching online courses with resources to improve the content of their courses. In 2003, …
Accessibility Compliance in Distance Learning: Barrier-Free Multimedia: January 23, 2007 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2007
This session will focus on solving the problem of accessibilities, which online students with disabilities face in distance-education courses that include multimedia components. By developing a syn…

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