Accessibility and Online Learning @ Montana Tech

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. The person with a disability must be able to obtain the information as fully, equally, and independently as a person without a disability.” (from Resolution Agreement: South Carolina Technical College System, OCR Compliance Review No. 11-11-6002.)

All campus digital materials created after June 24, 2024, and all digital materials still being used and updated MUST be accessible. Anything created before then that isn't in use anymore can be archived and exempt.

Please refer to the Disabilities Services' Faculty & Staff guide on their webpage for links to free courses on Canvas accessibility and guides to creating accessible content and documents listed. 

Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, along with its 2008 amendments, establish the requirements that information technology procured, developed, and used by postsecondary institutions must be accessible to individuals with disabilities. Together these statutes require that campus offerings be available to all students, faculty, staff, and visitors for whom they are designed, including individuals with disabilities. (This does included tools made available through applications software, websites, videos, PDF files, and other IT.)