Higher Education and Accessibility: Tackling Facilities Access, Online Access, and Inclusion
Accessibility in the News—4/13/17.
Colleges and universities have been in the accessibility spotlight recently, and this issue showcases a host of initiatives and needs within that sector. Here’s some of the goings on with higher education and accessibility:
- In Cincinnati, the student body is pursuing more immediately accessible digital content for both its websites and elearning programs.
- In New York, Cornell has documented its commitment to web accessibility and continues to push for improvements.
- As part of its ongoing efforts to improve a inclusive culture through open and transparent communication, Ohio University has established an Accessibility Liaison program.
- Similarly, Georgia Southern‘s Student Disability Resource Center works with between 600 and 700 students to help with mobility, housing, employment, and other resources.
Still, there’s plenty of work to be done in fully esteeming the needs of students with disabilities. In Connecticut, construction interferes with safe and familiar routes for navigating campus grounds in a wheelchair. A speaker at New York’s Colgate University highlights the subtle—or perhaps not so subtle—lack of integrating disability in campus-wide discussions of inclusion and diversity.
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