Mid-Atlantic Accessible
Education-Based
Information Technology Consortium

The Goal of the project is to provide technical assistance and training, and disseminate information about accessible education-based information technology (IT).

Objective 1: Provide technical assistance and training, and disseminate information on legal obligations of educational entities to provide accessible IT to students and employees.

Objective 2: Provide technical assistance to educational entities to enable them to conduct self-evaluations on the accessibility of their IT.

Objective 3: Provide technical assistance (either directly or through referral) on how to make existing IT accessible and ensure that new IT acquisitions are accessible.

Objective 4: Promote best practices by encouraging educational entities to purchase IT consistent with standards issued by the Access Board under Section 508 or universal design principles, regardless of whether they have a legal obligation to do so.

Objective 5: Provide information to Centers for Independent Living (CILs), Parent Training Information Centers, and Regional Resource Centers on accessible education-based IT.

Objective 6: Form regional partnerships among Assistive Technology Act grantees, Research Engineering Resource Centers (RERCs), Office of Special Education Programs' technology grantees, and other educational organizations/agencies to guide, coordinate, and carry out technical assistance activities in each region.

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