Center for Accessibility Resources & Disability Services

Digital Accessibility Working Group

As of Summer 2020, Barnard has founded the Digital Accessibility Working Group to address accessibility in the online learning environment. Our guiding principle as a group is to address the ways in which we must level the playing field in digital spaces & digital learning. Our identified goals for AY 2020-21 are as follows:

  • Develop an institutional process for PDF remediation. 
  • Develop consistent processes for real-time and post-production captioning.

More information will be posted here as we develop these initiatives this academic year.

 

Digital Accessibility Working Group Membership:

  • Holly Tedder, Director, Center for Accessibility Resources & Disability Services (CARDS)

  • Rebecca Sime Nagasawa, Associate Director, Center for Accessibility Resources & Disability Services (CARDS)

  • Jennifer Rosales, Executive Director, Center for Engaged Pedagogy (CEP)

  • Kristen Hogan, Co-Interim Dean, Barnard Library and Information Services (BLAIS)

  • Laura Downs Buma, Electronic Communications Director, Communications

  • Stacey Faraci, Associate General Counsel

  • Elana Altman, Academic Technologist Web & UX, Instructional Media and Technology Services (IMATS)

  • Benjamin Rosner, Instructional App. Developer, Instructional Media and Technology Services (IMATS)

  • Emma McMahon Murdock, Academic Coordinator, Curriculum, Provost's Office

  • Aida Santiago-Agosto, Associate Director, Student Computing Services, Information Technology (BCIT)

 

Have an Accessibility Request?

Digital Events

If you are a Barnard community member and have an accessibility request for a digital event, please submit our Accessibility Request Form. 

 

PDF Remediation (for use by screen readers & text to speech software)

If you are a Barnard community member and have a PDF remediation request, please submit our PDF Remediation Request Form along with a copy of the digital file you would like to remediate for use by a screen reader or text-to-speech software.

 

Captioning (for media course content)

If you are a Barnard faculty member and have a post production captioning request for your online course(s), please submit our Post Production Captioning Request Form along with a copy of the media file you would like captioned.

Accessible Campus Maps

Campus Map

Making Events Accessible

Linked below are some vendors we recommend for different aspects of accessibility:

Please reach out to CARDS at cards@swissabc.net or (212) 854-4634 if you have further questions.