Accessibility
Loyola is a university committed to social justice. Services for Students with Disabilities embodies this mission by working to make Loyola socially-just for our students with disabilities. One way to do this is by creating an accessible institution. Accessibility is the degree to which a product, device, service, or environment is available to as many people as possible. Accessibility can be viewed as the "ability to access" and benefit from some system or entity. Accessibility is not to be confused with usability, which is the extent to which a product (such as a device, service, or environment) can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use.
Accessibility is strongly related to universal when the approach involves "direct access." This is about making things accessible to all people (whether they have a disability or not). An alternative is to provide "indirect access" by having the entity support the use of a person's assistive technology. This is a service that provide in our office through text enlargement, alternative text creation, and creating braille forms of class material as part of our Alternative Text Program.
Accessibility is strongly related to universal when the approach involves "direct access." This is about making things accessible to all people (whether they have a disability or not). An alternative is to provide "indirect access" by having the entity support the use of a person's assistive technology. This is a service that provide in our office through text enlargement, alternative text creation, and creating braille forms of class material as part of our Alternative Text Program.