- What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
- What are a public or private college-university's responsibilities to students with disabilities?
What does this mean for you as a faculty member at a public college?
Generally, it means that you must provide basic accessible access to all aspects of your course. You may wonder if you only have to provide accommodations if there is a student known to be disabled in your class, and the answer is that for some types of accommodations, yes that would be the case. However, to broadly address the issue of accessibility to content in such a way that avoids singling out students, institutions have adopted the requirements for access to online content that must be provided to all students as part of the basic course design and to meet ADA requirements.