"This study focuses broadly on addressing the issue of digital accessibility for persons with disabilities in higher education. This study presents a review of research on digital accessibility in higher education. This study also presents data from a survey distributed to accessibility professionals in higher education. The goal of this research was to understand the work of accessibility professionals in higher education. Overall this study discusses three major findings. 1) digital accessibility coordinators are a new and undefined role in organizations (30% of individuals indicated that the role was less than a year old at their institution and 43% indicated that the role was 1-2 years old. 2) priorities for digital accessibility work are varied, but focused on training, workshops, and consultation, and 3) executive administration involvement for accessibility needs to be increased. Only 30% of respondents indicated that they had regularly scheduled meetings with executive leadership. Ultimately, the study provides insight into the role of the digital accessibility coordinator, the types of activities that accessibility professionals do or should do, and how executive leadership is involved in digital accessibility conversations. Other findings relate to how reasonably-resourced accessibility professionals believe accessibility is within institutions and how important it is to understand higher education contexts to determine how to do accessibility work within diverse organizations."--Page ii.
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