Accessibility allows everyone, regardless of disability to:
Accessibility is the quality of a device, service, or environment to be utilized by a wide range of people. By designing, implementing, and maintaining compliant resources, we make physical and digital accessibility a reality at Augusta University.
Physical spaces are required to be accessible to everyone.
Some common examples include:
Digital Spaces also need to be able to be accessed by everyone, regardless of disability.
Some general guidelines to help us maintain web accessibility include:
Augusta University strives for all of its facilities, websites, and campuses to be usable to all people regardless of disability or impairment.
Accessibility benefits everyone. It affords persons with disabilities access to the same information, opportunities, and services as persons without a disability. Everyone has the right to have access to the same or equivalent information.
According to theUS Department of Education:
To beaccessible, a person with a disability is able to obtain information as fully, equally and independently as a person without a disability.
We strive to maintain AA Web Accessibility Compliance.
Failure to comply with accessibility standards is discriminatory and illegal as outlined in theAmericans with Disabilities Act.
At Augusta University, it is our goal that a person with a disability has access to content in anequally effectiveandequally integrated manner, withsubstantially equivalent ease of use.
We continue work hard to ensure everyone has an equal opportunity to enjoy and engage in our educational programs and opportunities. In fact, all of our web publishers are required to take anAccessibility Compliance training course.
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