Welcome to our Accessibility Awareness Lab!
Technology like computers, smartphones, and the Internet can provide a life-changing level of independence for people with disabilities… If it’s accessible.
There are guidelines and laws that stipulate what qualifies something as accessible or inaccessible, but until you understand how people with disabilities actually use technology, it’s hard to know how accessibility issues may occur. That’s where the Accessibility Awareness Lab comes in.
On this page, you can find links to all the materials located at each station in the Lab as well as some additional resources to help you with your ongoing digital accessibility journey.
What do we mean when we use the word “empathy”? The term is used in a lot of different ways, and sometimes definitions seem to be completely at odds with each other. One common thread through all definitions of empathy is the ability to perceive and understand how another person may be feeling in a given situation. Alternatively, sympathy means feeling sorrow or pity for another person’s distress without necessarily understanding or trying to understand what that person is experiencing.
