ABSTRACT
“The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, and the challenge of developing American institutions along genuinely democratic lines”. This chapter provides a succinct treatment of the origin of digital accessibility in US education on a recent timeline. Individual instructors, staff members, and administrators must be strategic as they create and manage successful educational systems. Pioneer activists from Berkeley pushed for equity in higher education and physical access to programs that had not been open to them. In 2010, a complaint surrounding the use of an inaccessible KindleDX was sent to the US Department of Justice and the US Department of Education. These agencies issued a joint letter calling on all college and university presidents and K–12 school district leadership to consider accessibility. The technology and disability revolutions have made it clear that persons with disabilities need the enjoyment of technology as they fulfill their educational, employment, and civic duties.
