Common use of Website Accessibility Clause in Contracts

Website Accessibility. By March 30, 2015, the School will make its website, currently located at ▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇, its online learning environment, and its course management systems (collectively, “electronic and information technologies” or “EIT”) accessible to individuals with disabilities, particularly students with visual, hearing, or manual impairments or who otherwise require the use of assistive technology to access the EIT. In this context, “accessible” means that a person with a disability is afforded the opportunity to acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same services as a person without a disability in an equally effective and equally integrated manner, with substantially equivalent ease of use. A person with a disability must be able to obtain the information as fully, equally, and independently as a person without a disability. Although this might not result in identical ease of use compared to that of persons without disabilities, it still must ensure equal opportunity to the educational benefits and opportunities afforded by the technology and equal treatment in the use of such technology. Should the School choose to provide the information and services in some manner different from that used to provide information and services to others, the method chosen must permit students with disabilities to receive all the educational benefits provided by the technology in an equally effective and equally integrated manner.