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The current academic accommodations model forces individual learners to prove they are eligible for academic accommodations. And yet, learners are the ones patching up the institutions’ digital accessibility shortcomings.
“Throughout the world, many [governments and non-governmental] organizations–universities, schools, and private companies–are recognizing that accessibility is a moral and business imperative; many are adopting policies aimed at making Web resources accessible to the more than six hundred million people with disabilities worldwide.” (2002, Rush and Slatin) Recognizing something is a moral imperative … adopting policies…
An individual learner may experience digital inaccessibility in learning environments, activities, materials and assessments, all within their learning community.
