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Special Educational Needs & Disability Act 2001 (SENDA) Ruth Whitfield

The SENDA amends the DDA, ensuring educational equality for disabled students. Learn about unlawful discrimination, IT accessibility, web design adjustments, the HE Code of Practice, provision formats, and a relevant Australian case.

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Special Educational Needs & Disability Act 2001 (SENDA) Ruth Whitfield

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  1. Special Educational Needs & Disability Act 2001(SENDA)Ruth Whitfield

  2. What is it? • Amends the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA) • Introduces a new Part IV to DDA • Brings education into line with other service providers

  3. What is unlawful? • To discriminate against a disabled student: • In the arrangements made for determining admissions • In the admission terms • By refusing or deliberately omitting to accept an application for admission • In the student services it provides • By excluding whether permanently or temporarily from the institution

  4. SENDA and IT • General teaching and research facilities • Distance learning • Independent learning • Computer facilities • Library resources

  5. Main areas of concern for IT • Course materials • Computer facilities • Institutional and departmental Web sites

  6. Web sites • Is it a reasonable adjustment to modify or design a Web site to make it accessible? Yes!

  7. Web accessibility • Accessibility should form part of the specification for updating and redeveloping a Web site • Web sites need to be accessible to Priority level 1 of the W3C guidelines • Prevalent viewpoint: • Technology permits accessible Web sites and cost is not prohibitive

  8. The Code of Practice in HE • “The institution's publicity, programme details and general information should be accessible to people with disabilities and describe the opportunities for disabled students to participate.” • “electronic information, including web sites, is accessible to students with disabilities”

  9. Provision in other formats • Need to: • Be available for the same length of time • Provide updates within the same timescales as those provided on-line.

  10. Australian case • Bruce Lindsay Maguire v Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games • A blind user unable to access the Sydney Olympic Web site • W3C guidelines were taken as the accessibility benchmark

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