Digital Smarts - Building Campus Wide Accessibility

If you have a child with special needs and have had difficulties working with their school on providing accessibility to technology, you may be interested in this article about a recent initiative by Temple University. The Philadelphia-based school questioned what is meant by accessibility on campus and started an Accessible Technology Initiative to establish guidelines throughout every college and department in the school. Many colleges have disability resource centers, but as groups who represent the disabled continue to point out through lawsuits, that is not enough. Temple started to look at what they could do to ramp up the accessibility efforts across campus and in the classroom. Most importantly, Temple has recognized that accessibility is an ongoing process – not something you “solve” and walk away from. Just as the technology is constantly changing, so is the population an institution needs to serve.