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DO-IT: Making Campus Computing Facilities Accessible to People with Disabilities
by Marvin Crippen, Research Consultant
On modern (and not so modern) campuses computers are becoming
an all important part of the curriculum. Professors and teaching
assistants find e-mail as an efficient way of communicating with
students that have questions. Syllabi and handouts are frequently
created on personal computers. Information about the course, reading
and writing assignments, projects, and resources is finding its way
onto the World Wide Web. Word processing is a must for creating
critical papers and assignments. Computer labs are used to teach and
apply key concepts. As a result of all this, accessibility of
computing facilities can become all-important to the success of
students with disabilities.
As an ongoing project DO-IT has created simple guidelines for making
computer labs accessible to people with disabilities. The brochure
Making Campus Computing Facilities Accessible to People with
Disabilities contains a checklist for accessing computer lab
accessibility, a list of helpful communication hints, a list of UW
Campus resource, and a list of electronic and print resources that may
be useful in finding more information. The brochure is available on
the DO-IT home page at
http://www.washington.edu/doit/Brochures/comp.access.html
or from the DO-IT office.
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