Resources for Faculty, Staff, and Employers

The following resources can help faculty, staff, and employers include make courses and programs fully inclusive of students with disabilities.

• 30 Web Accessibility Tips - Creating or deploying web-based resources that are fully accessible to all users.
• AccessComputing: Building Capacity for Veterans - Capacity-Building Institute to explore challenges and solutions regarding the pursuit of computing and IT careers by veterans with disabilities.
• AccessComputing Minigrant Application - a process for requesting funds to promote computing careers for students with disabilities. Visit AccessComputing Minigrant Projects to review some of the successful projects funded through this effort.
• AccessComputing Stories - students, mentors, and partners with disabilities share their experiences as they pursue computing degrees and careers.
• AccessSTEM - the Alliance for Access to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, which features a searchable knowledge base of Q&As, case studies and promising practices regarding the pursuit of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics by people with disabilities.
• Advancing Deaf & Hard of Hearing in Computing - an AccessComputing project specifically devoted to increasing the participation of individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing in computing fields.
• AccessCollege and AccessCAREERS - comprehensive websites for general information about college and career access for people with disabilities.
• AccessSTEM/AccessComputing/DO-IT Longitudinal Transition Study - a study that tracks the progress of students with disabilities through junctures that lead to high tech degrees and careers.
• DO-IT - a Center on Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology, which hosts a collection of publications, videos, knowledge bases, and other resources related to increasing the academic and career success of people with disabilities, using technology as an empowering tool.
• Equal Access: Universal Design of Computing Departments - guidelines for making your computing department accessible to all students.
• Equal Access: Universal Design of Your Project - how to make your project accessible to everyone.
• Equal Access: Universal Design of Computer Labs - how to make computer labs accessible to people with disabilities.
• Equal Access: Universal Design of Instruction - a checklist to maximize the learning of all students.
• Planning an Accessible Conference - a resource for organizers of academic conferences who wish to make their events accessible; from the ACM Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing.
• Promising Practices - practices that show promise for increasing the participation of individuals with disabilities in computing fields.
• Returning from Service: College and IT Careers for Veterans (video) - opportunities and challenges faced by veterans with disabilities as they transition to the postsecondary classroom and pursue degrees in computing and information technology fields.
• UW Accessible Information Technology Capacity-Building Institute - an event that responded to the growing array of programs, services, and resources that are enhanced or driven by cutting-edge IT and the need for this technology to be accessible to all students, faculty, staff, and visitors, including those with disabilities.
• Veterans Center - resources for veterans with disabilities, faculty, and administrators for creating accessible postsecondary environments.
• Web Design & Development - web design curricula for grades 9-12 that emphasizes standards-based and accessible design.
• Working Together: Faculty and Students with Disabilities - guidelines for faculty that can be tailored to a specific institution by adding a campus resource list.
• Workshop for Emerging Deaf and Hard of Hearing Scientists White Paper - Information and resources from an AccessComputing-sponsored workshop, including information about the climate for scientists who are deaf or hard of hearing, student research opportunities, resources for students, and interpreting in STEM fields.
• World Wide Access: Accessible Web Design (video) - how to make web pages accessible to people with disabilities.