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The Accessible Virtual Campus

Welcome to our Virtual Campus!

Throughout our campus you will find ACCESS-ed generated resources and links to the work of others in the field. Rather than having to navigate their websites to find the piece you need, our links will take you to topic specific pages.

Do you work in the athletic department? Click on the Sports and Recreation building to find UD tips that pertain to you. Do you have concerns about issues in advising students with disabilities or students who do not speak English as their first language? Click on the Student Services building. How are math symbols made accessible to all? See the Media & Materials and Instructional Methods annotations for guidelines on making print, PowerPoint, or electronic representations of symbols universally designed.

It took me several years of struggling with the heavy door to my building, sometimes having to wait until a person stronger came along, to realize that the door was an accessibility problem, not only for me, but for others as well. And I did not notice, until one of my students pointed it out, that the lack of signs that could be read from a distance at my university forced people with mobility impairments to expend a lot of energy unnecessarily, searching for rooms and offices. Although I have encountered this difficulty myself on days when walking was exhausting to me, I interpreted it, automatically, as a problem arising from my illness (as I did with the door), rather than as a problem arising from the built environment having been created for too narrow a range of people and situations.

Susan Wendell, author of
The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability