Digital Accessibility

Making Technology Accessible - At Virginia Tech, we strive to make learning environments and workspaces that are welcoming and accessible to people with disabilities.

Our Mission

The mission of Accessible Technologies is to promote the use of teaching and learning strategies, communications practices, technologies, and technology standards that enable everyone in our university community, regardless of disability status, to learn and work.

At Accessible Technologies, we work to ensure that students, employees, and the general public with disabilities have appropriate technologies needed to access programs and services of the university. To achieve this goal, we work with the university's ADA & Accessibility Services and Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) to educate and supply assistive technologies to individuals with a documented need for disability accommodations at Virginia Tech.

Why Make It Accessible?

Most of us take for granted the ability to do simple tasks such as taking a walk on campus, reading a good book, listening to music, watching a movie or using a computer. When the ability to perform everyday tasks has been limited by injury, aging, illness, or any other condition accessibility and assistive technologies can often help. Assistive technologies may be defined as any product, system, or service that is used by an individual to increase, enhance, or maintain functional capabilities.

The most common example of an assistive technology is eyeglasses which are used by millions of Americans to maintain or enhance vision for reading or driving a car. However, technologies such as screen magnification for visual difficulties, synthetic speech for assisted reading, voice recognition products for writing, and adaptive or ergonomic workstations to prevent injury may also be defined as assistive technologies.

Virginia Tech has a number of supports in place to provide access to the widest possible range of users. 

What Is Available?