Harvard University Information Technology’s Digital Accessibility Services (DAS) hosted the 4th annual university-wide Accessibility Summit on June 4, 2026. The event brought together Harvard faculty and staff for a day of learning and connecting...
Around the country and at Harvard, instructors are being asked to create learning materials that meet digital accessibility standards. Find out some essentials that instructors should know about their role in accessibility.
Accessibility is most effective when we ground compliance in human stories, center disabled voices, and build with genuine community.
If you've ever filed a web accessibility concern or are thinking about it, you might wonder: does anyone actually read these? Who gets involved? What does a "fix" even look like, and how long does it take? Your report does not disappear into a black hole...
If you spend enough time on university websites, apps, or online tools, you'll eventually run into something that just does not work as expected for accessibility. Whatever the barrier, we want to know about it. Here's how to tell us and why it matters.
A suggestion to help make accessibility something you can truly care about, and not just something you’ve been told you need to care about, is to discover your own, personal connection to it.
Hello from Digital Accessibility Services (DAS), and welcome to our new blog! We hope you will find our posts interesting, helpful, and informative. Let’s start by introducing ourselves so you have an idea of who we are and what we do at Harvard.