The Coordination Office for Equality, Diversity, and Disability would like to provide you, as a teacher, with an overview of how to design and improve the quality of accessible teaching, as well as basic information on alternative examination methods and how to respond to different types of disabilities.
 

According to the 2019 Student Social Survey commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Research, more than 12% of students are impaired in their studies due to a disability and/or illness. Applied to BOKU, this means that around 1,200 people with disabilities and/or chronic or mental illnesses study at our university.
In order to enable participation and equal opportunities for students with disabilities and to compensate for existing disadvantages and barriers, specific laws and legal frameworks have been created for almost all areas of life, such as the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Disability Equality Act, and the WZG. The requirements of people with disabilities must also be given special consideration in the UG 2002, the BOKU statutes, and the equality plan.
 

A prerequisite for inclusive and diversity-sensitive teaching is to perceive the plurality of students as an opportunity and to approach them with an open mind as teachers.

The goal is to enable everyone to successfully complete their studies and graduate.

 

To this end, we have also compiled information on individual impairments:

 

However, many measures are easier to implement than is often thought.

If you need support with implementation, have questions or suggestions, or encounter situations for which you cannot currently find a solution, you can contact the Disability Officer (Coordination Office) at any time. In addition, other contact persons are available within and outside BOKU, such as ÖH-BOKU, occupational psychologists, the scientific works council, the psychological student counseling center, and GESTU.

 

Further information:

Videos from the University of Potsdam on the topic of accessible teaching.
 

Creating accessible documents
These applications can be used to create accessible documents, teaching and learning materials in MS Word or MS PowerPoint and then convert them into accessible PDFs.
Legal information
Further detailed information on the legal situation at national and international level can be found here.