Accessibility Passport: a Digital Accessibility Movement. Your Friends across the Pond Need You!

Tuesday, October 22, 2024 | 3:00PM–3:45PM CT | Meeting Room 225A, Second Level
Session Type: Breakout Session
Delivery Format: Presentation/Panel Session
RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People?the UK’s leading sight-loss charity) and UCL (University College London?the UK’s largest in-person university and #2 for research power in the UK) are teaming up to make the higher education sector more accessible for everyone through an initiative called Accessibility Passport (https://www.makethingsaccessible.com/ap). We started in the UK and want to go global with help from our friends at EDUCAUSE. As RNIB's Gareth Davies says, "We hope the development of sector-level resources such as toolkits, templates, and eventually a charter mark, will help improve the lived experience of everyone in HE, including those who are blind and partially sighted."

Presenters

  • Gareth Davies

    Senior Relationship Manager, Royal National Institute of Blind people (RNIB)

  • David Goddard

    Digital Student Experience Product Owner, University College London

  • Ben Watson

    Digital Accessibility, University College London

Resources & Downloads

  • Slide for Accessibility Passport talk

    Updated on 6/14/2026