Virtually Accessible: Empowering Students To Advocate for Accessibility and Support Universal Design.

Oravec, Jo Ann

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ERIC Number: EJ666564

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Publication Date: 2002

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Virtually Accessible: Empowering Students To Advocate for Accessibility and Support Universal Design.

Oravec, Jo Ann

Library Hi Tech, v20 n4 p452-61 2002

Explores how students who design Web sites and work with computer end users can be introduced to accessibility approaches and empowered to promote them in organizational contexts. Discusses Internet accessibility challenges to people with disabilities; legal issues; and the social context of technology and technological education. (Contains 70 references.) (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Access to Information, Accessibility (for Disabled), Disabilities, Higher Education, Internet, Legal Problems, Organizations (Groups), Science and Society, Student Role

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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