- Set periodic policy reviews.
- Have audits and use checklists to evaluate university facilities and services.
- Continuously develop strategies to facilitate change, improve understanding, and widen exposure of HE staff to people with disabilities.
- Monitoring organizational and structural accessibility.
- Compulsory training for administrative and teaching staff on inclusive practices, supporting students, building inclusive environments, and using technologies.
- Implementation of diversity and sensitivity training which includes: identity self-reflection of behaviours and differences, recognition and and demystifing of any presumed stereotypes.
- Training sessions to learn about new methods of effectively upholding the principles of equal access to information.
- Training workshops on the legal and technical requirements of the accessibility mandate.
- A series of external and in-house sessions that address digital content policies and procedures to raise awareness among librarians how to ensure accessibility.
- Professional development events related to accessibility, to provide practical information that enhance peer learning and the implementation of services to accommodate all user groups.
- Provide universal course design training.
- Encourage collaboration, administrative support, and participation throughout campus departments.
- Establish collaborations between library staff, people with disabilities and the office of student disability services.
- Offer information on services, policies, and procedures for individuals with disabilities.
- Promote customizable library services during orientation workshop for new and returning students and faculty.
- Provide students with different types of desks and use flexible sitting arrangements.
- Provide earlier accessible assessment for dyslexia.
- Promote research and evidence to support the development of campus-based programs.
- Aim for additional funding resources for note takers and other services.
- Provide assistive technology training.
- Invest in website development for training, guidance, and community engagement.
- Establish an ongoing campaign to remove/fix inaccessible PDFs and videos without closed captions for every website associated with the university.
- Allow students to use computers and record lectures.
- Creation of network between embedded accessibility coordinators within faculties and institutions.
- Commit to collaborating with schools, families, and external agencies on how to support students on campus.
- Having a Liaison that can keep the staff well-informed on how to maintain ongoing compliance with accessibility standards through regular communication, resources, and support services, which follow the outcome of relevant professional development workshops.
- Establish the role of disability officer and dyslexia coordinator.
- Ensure regular institutional meetings and professional development sessions to keep the Librarian well informed on daily activities, important events and/or curricular changes in disability services.
- Provide Student Support Services to transmit information across academic departments and promote dyslexia-friendly approaches.
- Create individual course guides for students, faculty, staff, researchers and other affiliates of university’s academic departments, to use as a point of reference.
- Widening information channels of university application accessible to parents and students of minorities
- Flexible language admission requirements for foreign students.
- Promote exchange of ideas that highlight positive collaborations and practices of assisting people with disabilities.
- Rigorous monitoring of the systems used to serve disabled students.
