This work takes the most recent interdisciplinary research and demonstrates how to make higher
education institutions open accessible and socially just for staff and students with
disabilities. Combining the scholarly fields of media platform management information literacy
internet studies mobility studies and disability studies this book offers a guide and method
to consider how students and staff with differing needs move through university processes
spaces and interfaces. It captures the challenges and potentials of both the online and offline
university. The key concept of the book is universal design. This term and theory is used to
move beyond the medical and social model of disability that disconnect and separate the issues
of disability and impairment from core societal concerns. This book confirms that most of us
will be touched by impairment through our lives. When matched with the necessity to retrain and
gain new skills for a post-recession future there must be a renewed commitment to not only the
widening participation agenda of higher education but also the enabling of universities for
men and women with impairments.
