What is the purpose of an accommodation?

• While UCF’s goal is to be proactively accessible, accommodations may still be needed to ensure students with disabilities have equitable access to their education.
• An accommodation should create access by removing or modifying a barrier present in the environment (physical space, policy, written/auditory/electronic information, and/or attitude) that nondisabled peers do not experience.
• The goal is to adjust the method in which academic tasks are accomplished without substantially altering the task itself or the academic rigor required. For example, a student may need additional time to take an exam, rather than reducing the number of questions or difficulty of an exam.
• Accommodations are not meant to ensure academic success, provide comfort, or reduce discomfort, but ensure that students with disabilities are not disadvantaged in their education simply because of their disability.