Status: Closed — this petition is no longer accepting signatures.
Final supporters
As a visually impaired student, I have encountered Pearson online products at two different colleges personally which are not accessible with screen readers. Some of these simply supplement courses and others are mandatory for certain courses. However, none are screen reader accessible. Such products include, but are not limited to, MyITLab, MyMathLab, MyStatLab, Mastering Science, and a host of other online products designed to supplement courses. Again these are mandatory for some courses and optional for others. However, dozens of colleges around the country have been using their products for years now and even high schools have started picking them up. There has been no response to individuals, myself and others included, contacting them regarding their inaccessibility.
As a result, we, the undersigned, request that the National Federation of the Blind intervene on our behalf. We are students, prospective students, teachers, and other individuals who are interested in expanding accessibility and leveling the playing field for blind individuals. We would like to see Pearson finally take accessibility seriously, and believe that this will only get done with the representation and support of the NFB. This change would positively affect blind and visually impaired individuals around the country, and would give us greater resources for scholastic success.
While Pearson is a third party provider of products, the fact that many colleges use these products as integral parts of their courses and that Pearson also provides other products and services related to education should make them just as responsible for abiding by the Americans With Disabilities Act as any other public entity.
Please take into consideration the needs of all of the undersigned and the groups they represent and help us to achieve accessibility of these products for all.
Thank you,
The Undersigned
More like this
Ebooks should be made available to all!
Make the UEA Campus Accessible to All
5 Comments
Apology for the goof on that last post, just posting my name. Anyway I do believe this is important and is something I've been dealing with myself for several years. It has to be fixed. Fortunately I've had flexible teachers that have found alternatives, but they shouldn't be required to do so when the resources should work anyway. Sure it is part of their job to work with students to succeed, but this should not require needing to circumvent a resource that should be inherently accessible to all.
Thank you all who have signed this petition and made comments on it. It still has not yet gained enough support however. If you could please post this on your social networks, or email it to anyone you feel might be interested, or any groups you feel it is applicable to, I would greatly appreciate it. Do not spam it and do not send it to irrelevant groups, but blind groups, student groups, education groups, or any other related lists would tremendously help to get the word out. Thank you!
I feel it is important that we take a stand to make all things accessible for People who are blind, or have a visual impairment. Great strides have been made, but much more needs to be done.
Amanda Matheny
Share this petition
Share this petition to help it reach more people.
Your share link
Status: Closed — this petition is no longer accepting signatures.
Final supporters
As a visually impaired student, I have encountered Pearson online products at two different colleges personally which are not accessible with screen readers. Some of these simply supplement courses and others are mandatory for certain courses. However, none are screen reader accessible. Such products include, but are not limited to, MyITLab, MyMathLab, MyStatLab, Mastering Science, and a host of other online products designed to supplement courses. Again these are mandatory for some courses and optional for others. However, dozens of colleges around the country have been using their products for years now and even high schools have started picking them up. There has been no response to individuals, myself and others included, contacting them regarding their inaccessibility.
As a result, we, the undersigned, request that the National Federation of the Blind intervene on our behalf. We are students, prospective students, teachers, and other individuals who are interested in expanding accessibility and leveling the playing field for blind individuals. We would like to see Pearson finally take accessibility seriously, and believe that this will only get done with the representation and support of the NFB. This change would positively affect blind and visually impaired individuals around the country, and would give us greater resources for scholastic success.
While Pearson is a third party provider of products, the fact that many colleges use these products as integral parts of their courses and that Pearson also provides other products and services related to education should make them just as responsible for abiding by the Americans With Disabilities Act as any other public entity.
Please take into consideration the needs of all of the undersigned and the groups they represent and help us to achieve accessibility of these products for all.
Thank you,
The Undersigned
5 Comments
I'm an educator and a software engineer who works in the digital education space. I'm also visually impaired. Access to digital forms of education is a basic, 21st century right. I strongly encourage Pearson to follow the lead of innovators like Apple and Amazon, and make their content accessible to *all* people.
Apology for the goof on that last post, just posting my name. Anyway I do believe this is important and is something I've been dealing with myself for several years. It has to be fixed. Fortunately I've had flexible teachers that have found alternatives, but they shouldn't be required to do so when the resources should work anyway. Sure it is part of their job to work with students to succeed, but this should not require needing to circumvent a resource that should be inherently accessible to all.
Thank you all who have signed this petition and made comments on it. It still has not yet gained enough support however. If you could please post this on your social networks, or email it to anyone you feel might be interested, or any groups you feel it is applicable to, I would greatly appreciate it. Do not spam it and do not send it to irrelevant groups, but blind groups, student groups, education groups, or any other related lists would tremendously help to get the word out. Thank you!
I feel it is important that we take a stand to make all things accessible for People who are blind, or have a visual impairment. Great strides have been made, but much more needs to be done.
Amanda Matheny
Share this petition
Share this petition to help it reach more people.
Your share link
Petitions like this
Other petitions you might want to support
Scan to share
Anyone who scans this can sign the petition.
I'm an educator and a software engineer who works in the digital education space. I'm also visually impaired. Access to digital forms of education is a basic, 21st century right. I strongly encourage Pearson to follow the lead of innovators like Apple and Amazon, and make their content accessible to *all* people.