Consultations
We began campus-wide consultations on accessibility in 2022, through the campus-wide Equity Action Plan process. Specific to the Accessibility Plan, we have consulted faculty, staff and students through a combination of meetings, emails and online surveys.
Groups and units consulted
- Associate Deans, Chairs and Directors
- Centre for Accessible Students
- Co-op and Career Services
- Deans’ Council and Academic Leadership
- Division of Learning and Teaching Support and Innovation
- Equity and Human Rights
- Executive Council
- Faculty Association, PEA and CUPE unions
- Graduate Students’ Society (GSS)
- International Centre for Students
- Office of Indigenous Academic and Community Engagement
- Society for Students with a Disability
- ßÉßɱ¬ÁÏ Students’ Society (UVSS)
Thank you to members of our community who generously shared their experiences and stories with us to help shape this plan. This input was crucial in creating a framework that represents the voices of our diverse community and in supporting an intersectional approach to this work.
Key discussion themes
Feedback was collected and themed as followed:
- Culture
- Education and resources
- Student supports
- Teaching, learning and research
- Communication and information
During consultations, we heard a call for:
- Improving the campus culture and attitudes towards people with disabilities
- Making accessibility tools, information and resources easier to find
- Recognizing that accessibility is a shared responsibility
- Improving the accessibility of the built environment
- Continuing to make our processes and systems more accessible
- Supporting instructors in universal course design
Our three-year plan reflects how we intend to respond to and address feedback gathered through consultations.