This module is about web access and universal design in the Internet. Web accessibility is just, very simply, making things that are on the Internet available to everyone.
When a professor puts information on the web or on the Internet for students to access, it's a great tool. It makes learning that much easier for everybody, but if it's not accessible, then a student that needs that accessibility is going to fall further behind.
One example of technology that helps a person who is blind, or has a visual impairment, is JAWS. It takes whatever is on the screen and puts out an audio of what is on the screen, so the person who has the visual impairment, or is blind, can read and be able to interact with what is going on the screen. And I think overall, professors want students to do well in their classes. And an accommodation is not an advantage for a person with a disability; it just levels out the playing field, so to speak. It takes some of the barriers that a disability might throw up and it minimizes them. Granting that accommodation is going to actually help that professor fulfill their philosophy as a teacher and it's going to bring that information and that education to everybody.
