The Internet has the potential to provide students, faculty, and staff with disabilities with greater independence than ever before, if institutional websites are designed to be accessible – but many are not. WICHE’s partnering in an effort to help address this issue. GOALS (Gaining Online Accessible Learning through Self-Study), a project supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), is working to create materials and processes to boost institutional web accessibility. Its just-developed Web Accessibility Benchmarking and Planning Tool is designed to assist institutions in assessing, planning, tracking, and improving their infrastructure to support web accessibility – important moves for reaccreditation. GOALS staff invites WICHE schools to participate in a final beta test of the tool before it’s released. The first 50 institutions to sign up will receive free access to the tool, support from the GOALS staff, and materials to document their improvements for regional accreditors. To learn more contact Cyndi Rowland at cyndi.rowland@usu.edu or call 435.797.3381. 

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