Students can get up-to-the-hour Access Updates now on a blog launched and maintained by Disability Services. So, when an elevator goes down on campus, that information will appear on the Access Updates Blog at:
For years, Facility Services has alerted us to elevator breakdowns and the like, and we’ve passed that information back to Facilities Services as well,” said Disability Services Assistive Technology Coordinator Dan Burke. “But we had no way to get that information directly to the students who might need to know it. For the first time, we’ve got a place where information can be posted and quickly pulled down by students with disabilities.”
Students and employees can set RSS feeds in their Outlook or web browsers to alert them whenever there is a change made to the blog home page. That way they get an alert and can check the page to see what’s up at a given moment. Using the RSS Outlook settings will generate a short e-mail update.
Perhaps two or three posts may be made a week, but one of those could make a difference to a student on his or her way to campus or to a class.
Additional post categories will be added to the Access Updates Blog this spring, so that the blog can be a timely clearinghouse for campus access topics and related disability posts.
Burke said that a phone text access alert system is also in the testing stages. Student’s will be able volunteer to receive those alerts, and receive short notices in their One Stop account or text message boxes on their cell phones.
