The following excerpt comes to us via Inclusion Daily:
Blind Students Demand Access To Online Course Materials
(Chronicle of Higher Education)
December 13, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC– [Excerpt] More than 19,000 people have visited a new student union that Arizona State University put up last year to build a better sense of campus community.
Darrell Shandrow, a blind senior studying journalism, can’t get through the front door.
He’s stuck because the new social hub is built of bits, not bricks — a private Facebook application for Arizona State students. And, like so much technology used by colleges, the software doesn’t work with the programs that blind people depend on to navigate the Web.
“Basically, I’m locked out,” Mr. Shandrow, 37, says.
So are many others.
Entire article:
Blind Students Demand Access to Online Course Materials
http://chronicle.com/article/Blind-Students-Demand-Access/125695/
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