Accessibility
Publications
IN-AccessIT:
Accessibility Paper (sent on 3/10/04):
Dear
Colleagues,
We
would like to alert you to a relevant paper that might
be helpful to you: "Accessibility of the Internet
in Postsecondary Education: Meeting the Challenge.Ħħ
The
paper was written by Cyndi Rowland, director of WebAIM,
and was presented at the Universal Web Accessibility Symposium
on October 31, 2004.
Postsecondary
entities are rapidly increasing their use of the Web as
a mode of communication with students, staff, and others.
Unfortunately, if those websites are not accessible, use
of the Web can present significant barriers to users with
disabilities.
Rowland
presents an overview of the current state of postsecondary
web accessibility policy and law. She illustrates the
complexities of the problem of web accessibility in institutions
of higher education and makes suggestions for meeting
those challenges.
You
can access the article by clicking on the link below:
http://www.webaim.org/coordination/articles/meetchallenge
Please
feel free to let us know your reactions to and use of
this article!
IN-AccessIT:
Accessibility Article (sent on 6/17/04):
Dear
Colleagues,
We
are writing to recommend an article about IT accessibility
in postsecondary schools that we thought might be of interest
to many of you.
Please
click on the link below to have free access to Left Out
Online - an article written by Scott Carlson in the issue
of The Chronicle of Higher Education dated June 11, 2004.
This
article is recommended to you because it touches on many
of the issues that were brought up in the feedback we
just collected from the members of this distribution list.
It provides specific examples, and describes the steps
toward access that universities are currently taking as
well as the struggles they face.
Temporary
free link to this article (will expire on August 11, 2004):
http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=e0f1m7akr8r0r12o0t9v2sdhg3n3n0
This link is distributed with permission from The Chronicle
of Higher Education.
IN-AccessIT : Accessible Computer Labs (sent on 1/18/06):
Dear Colleagues,
While it is important to consider ways to make the virtual world of web pages and distance learning courses as accessible as possible, it is equally vital to ensure that physical technology facilities are available to all.
Many students rely on computer labs for their everyday technology needs. Today, there is more awareness about the need for these labs to be accessible to all students, and there are many resources available to help plan the design of accessible computer facilities.
Below, we've provided some excellent links on this topic. If you are not the person who makes decisions regarding the hardware and software layout of the computer labs at your school, perhaps you could pass this list of interesting articles on to them.
Instructional Accommodation: Computer Labs http://www.uky.edu/TLC/grants/uk_ed/comp_labs.html
How can I design a school computer lab to be accessible to all students?
http://www.washington.edu/accessit/articles?91
What are the main features of an accessible computer lab? http://www.washington.edu/doit/Conf/articles?68
Computer Labs Case Study
http://www.washington.edu/doit/Faculty/Strategies/Academic/Computerlabs/computer_lab_case_study.html
