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ACCESS matters

Purpose: We envision UCF to be a fully accessible campus and inclusive environment for people with disabilities.

We do this by:

Acknowledging disability as an aspect of human diversity;
Cultivating awareness of the environment’s disabling barriers;
Collaborating on and proactively facilitating accessible environments and experiences;
Educating faculty and staff to create and maintain access in their spheres of influence;
Shifting to an inclusive-minded attitude;
Supplementing with reasonable accommodations as a last resort measure to ensure access.

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Why We Do What We Do

At SAS, we believe the environment and the intersection of a person with the environment create more of a disability barrier than the individual’s diagnosis or situation. And each of us contributes to the environment. Examples of environment design include:

  • Physical building or office space access and layout;
  • Office policies and procedures for accessing resources available through an office, program, or resource;
  • Course teaching methods and learning assessment methods;
  • TV and online videos and whether or not they are captioned;
  • Personal attitudes and general awareness of society’s contribution to disability;

Our goal is to encourage proactive consideration of how environments are created and how we, as a campus community, think about disability. Accessibility is not an SAS matter. It is a UCF matter. Better design, even if as simple as a more open attitude, can create better access and more inclusion for everyone. Our vision is that everyone would ask: What is the real barrier here? What can I do to address the barrier?

Meet the Team

Leadership Staff

Communication Access Team

Professional Staff

UCF Connect Campuses SAS Contacts