Save the Accessibility Institute
I support this petition.I have attended U T twice, in 1970, and again in 1984 when I received my graduate degree in social work. In those days nothing was made accessible for disabled students, and I spent most of my time making sure that materials were accessible so that I could use them.
The use of the institutes technical knowledge and expertise benefits the disabled community world wide by leveling the playing field. more importantly it keeps U T compliant with the A D A by allowing its own web pages to be made accessible. The closure of the institute will mean a return to the dark age of discrimination from which accessible web technology has freed us. Just like you, we depend on our computers for all kinds of activities including mail, shopping, web conferencing, general information, social interaction, reference and research materials, and even signing this petition. How would you feel if every time you attempted to access the internet your computer screen went dar...