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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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Google Accessibility Improvements: April 22, 2013

Google started informing its applications user groups today about the accessibility improvements it has made to a range of its applications and software platforms. (Please see below for the quote…
ATHEN Report on the Accessibility of GMail and Google Calendar: 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…
ATI Google Apps Accessibility Evaluation: 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…
Accessibility Update: GMail and Google Calendar: 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…
The Promise of Accessible Technology, Part 3 - Colleges and Universities: February 15, 2012

At the recent U.S. Senate hearing on technology accessibility that focused largely on higher education, “ The Promise of Accessible Technology: Challenges and Opportunities ,” Mark Turner,…
NFB: Google Apps Accessibility Not There Yet: January 13, 2012

This last October, I wrote about comments made by the National Federation of the Blind’s legal counsel, Dan Goldstein, indicating that Google appeared to be on track to resolve NFB concerns ab…
Google Apps Accessibility: A Light at the End of the Tunnel?: October 5, 2011

A couple of weeks ago, Google announced accessibility improvements to a number of Google Apps , including Google Docs (documents list, documents, and spreadsheets), Google Calendar (agenda vi…
Google Apps accessibility improvements, Sept. 21 webconference: September 19, 2011

My colleague, Joan Cheverie, blogged on Friday about Google's announcement that day of its accessibility improvements to some of the key elements of Google Apps for Education. You can view J…
Cal State Report on Google Apps Accessibility Posted: June 21, 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…
Accessibility: The NFB, Google, Microsoft, and You: 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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