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Accessibility: The Need for Champions and Awareness in Higher Education

This webpage contains an excerpt of a podcast that addresses awareness, accessibility and universal design and the issues in higher education. The full podcast is available through a link on this page.

© 2010 Cyndi Rowland, Terrill Thompson, and Kara Zirkle EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45, no. 6 (November/December 2010)

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"We cannot afford to let the issue of disabilities be simply an afterthought. We have a unique opportunity now, as industry pours billions of dollars into upgrading the communications infrastructure, to make sure that people with disabilities are not left behind. Now is the time. Accessibility of services and products for all Americans has got to be a design feature, not an add-on."

Chairman Kennard, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Statement on Video Description, 11/18/99