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- Policy and Law (59)
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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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USA
The U.S. Department of Justice's Americans with Disabilities (ADA) website includes the following information:
- Frequently Asked Questions About the June 29, 2010, Dear Colleague Letter
- A Guide to Disability Rights Laws
- ADA Standards for Accessible Design
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The Australian Human Rights Commission website on World Wide Web and information accessibility includes information on;
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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Accessibility
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Accessibility of Instructional Web Sites in Higher Education
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July 30, 2007
Accessibility of Instructional Web Sites in Higher Education A collaborative program offers assessment and consultation to instructional Web site developers for Section 508 compliance By …
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Accessibility Update: GMail and Google Calendar
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March 6, 2012
The Access Technology Higher Education Network (ATHEN) has released its latest in a planned series of reports on the accessibility of key components of Google Apps for Education. Its first r…
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Accessibility, Faculty Development, and Engaging Learning
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April 14, 2009
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference 2009
The California State University has over 10,000 students with disabilities, with a significant year-to-year increase. CSU efforts are currently under way to address how to better serve students wit…
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Accessibility: Front and Center
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April 1, 2013
Bruce Maas is the Vice Provost for Information Technology and CIO at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Earlier in my career, I had the privilege of working closely with two facu…
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Accessibility: The NFB, Google, Microsoft, and You
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June 9, 2011
The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) and the U.S. Department of Education (ED) have expressed concern about campus use of technologies that are inaccessible to people with disabilities. Ov…
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ADA Web Accessibility Regs Likely Just A Matter of Time
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November 18, 2011
Between the Kindle e-reader lawsuits , Google Apps for Education civil rights complaints , and Penn State’s recent settlement of a National Federation of the Blind (NFB) complaint ab…
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ARL Report: A Great Overview of Print Accessibility
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December 14, 2012
Comprehensive overviews of accessibility issues that one can still read relatively quickly don’t often appear. However, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has produced just that in its…
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ATHEN Report on the Accessibility of GMail and Google Calendar
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February 29, 2012
The Access Technology Higher Education Network (ATHEN) is continuing its functional evaluation of the components of the Google Application Suite to determine the accessibility of each component f…
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ATI Google Apps Accessibility Evaluation
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October 11, 2011
The California State University Accessible Technology Initiative (ATI) has posted a report on the accessibility of Google Apps. The report stems from a collaborative effort by volunteers from se…
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Audio and Video Accessibility: Strategies and Workflows
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October 13, 2010
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference
Higher education institutions have legal and ethical obligations to provide audio and video resources that are accessible to all audience members, including those who are deaf or hard of hearing. T…
