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.

Making Events Accessible

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

• ASL interpreter
• Hearing loop
• Braille

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