An adjustment a student must request is an adjustment many students never receive. It requires a diagnosis, a disclosure, a form, and the confidence to ask for something that is presented as an exception. A great many students who would benefit never begin that process.
The University's approach is to make the adjustment the default. Multiple formats, adjustable pacing, unlimited repetition and a choice of assessment are not available on application; they are how every student is taught. Nobody has to identify themselves as needing them.
What Is Available to Every Student
Three Study Formats
Every lesson may be read, watched or listened to. A student who cannot read comfortably for long periods is not thereby prevented from studying.
Adjustable Pace
Reading speed, playback speed and the rate at which a lesson advances are all set by the student and may be changed at any moment.
Display Settings
Text size, contrast and line spacing are adjustable. The accelerated reading format removes page-level visual complexity entirely.
Unlimited Repetition
Any lesson may be repeated any number of times. No record notes how often, and no consequence attaches to it.
Eight Assessment Methods
A student who writes poorly under time pressure may be examined by discussion, by portfolio or by continuous credit instead.
Spoken Input and Output
Questions may be asked aloud and answered aloud. Every spoken feature has a written equivalent and every written feature a spoken one.
Accessibility Is Not Only a Matter of Disability
A student working night shifts, a parent with an unpredictable week, a student in a time zone eight hours from ours, a student whose English is a third language: each is excluded by conventional provision for reasons that have nothing to do with capability.
There are no fixed terms, no live sessions to miss and no deadline that falls at an hour convenient to us and impossible for the student. Progress is saved continuously, so study may be interrupted mid-lesson and resumed days later at the same point.
If Something Here Does Not Work for You
Tell us. Accessibility that cannot be improved on the basis of what students report is not accessibility; it is a claim. The Dean of Students reads every message.