EDUCAUSE IT Accessibility Constituent Group

Direct from the EDUCAUSE Website: IT Accessibility Constituent Group

Whether for pedagogical, administrative, social, or other ends, information, programs, and services at universities and colleges continue to expand exponentially, and mechanisms to access these programs, services and information have increasingly become technology-centric, both physically and virtually. All programs and resources must be equally accessible to students, faculty, staff, and other stakeholders, such as parents and local communities, as appropriate within the higher education environment, regardless of physical or other related abilities.

The IT Accessibility Constituent Group will help the EDUCAUSE community to assess the scope of issues of universal IT accessibility, to identify resources and initiatives, to develop best practices on policy and assistive program and service development, and in general to focus on how to approach campus-wide universal access of information by engaging in dialogue across boundaries within and beyond the campus environment.

Leader: Terry Thompson, Senior Computer Specialist, University of Washington, tft@u.washington.edu [and ATHEN member]