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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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Accessibility: Front and Center: 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…
The Role of Campus Leadership in Ensuring IT Accessibility: November 29, 2012

“Everyone should have an opportunity to participate in higher education.” With those words, Michael K. Young, President of the University of Washington, opens a new video from his inst…
College Is Hard Enough: Digital Technology Should Work for Everyone: April 7, 2011

Sharon Krevor-Weisbaum, Esq. ( skw@browngold.com ), is a Partner at Brown, Goldstein & Levy LLP in Baltimore, Maryland. Comments on this article can be posted to the web via th…
Guidelines for Making Web Content Accessible to All Users: March 26, 2009

By Terrill Thompson, Saroj Primlani, and Lisa Fiedor The main goal of accessibility standards and guidelines is to design websites everyone can use. Several organizations offer stan…
Video Vision: September 15, 2008

© 2008 Victor Edmonds. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ). EDUCAUSE Re…
Accessibility of Instructional Web Sites in Higher Education: 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 …
Electronic Ramp to Success: Designing Campus Web Pages for Users with Disabilities: January 1, 2002

As colleges and universities put resources and services online, access by users with disabilities becomes increasingly vital. As colleges and universit…

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