Accessibility

Accessibility is about minimizing the barriers between individuals and the information, experiences, and opportunities they want to pursue.

These are some of the services and tools aimed at ensuring full access for students, faculty, and staff at UW-Madison.

McBurney Disability Resource Center

https://mcburney.wisc.edu/

The McBurney is the campus source for ensuring accessibility, inclusivity, and equal opportunity for students of all ability levels. Physical accommodations, assistive technology, sign-language interpreters, note-takers and many other services are available for students and staff with a wide variety of ability-related needs.

Related: the Disability Resource Guide from Facilities Planning and Management (FPM) offers resources for building access and accomodation, emergency planning, snow removal, and more.

Screenshot of the McBurney homepage

Glean

Glean is a technology-assisted note-taking platform available to students at UW-Madison through The McBurney Disability Resource center.

It has a number of different tools that let users do things like sync notes to lecture audio, upload lecture PowerPoints and Slides decks, and more.

STS trainer Jack Sperling has created an in-depth user guide for Glean, which you can access here:

Using Glean – Software Training for Students