Module 3 Blog Post
I consider my most embarrassing moment in my professional life to be the time that I was assisting a student who I did not realize had a visual impairment. I was trying to assist a student wirelessly print from their laptop. They were running late for their next class and their credentials weren't working for the wireless printing service and to print from her own laptop, I knew she would have to go to IT and have her credentials reset so she could wirelessly print from her laptop. She did not have time to do that so I suggested she send her materials to herself via email and use one of our public computers to print. She seemed frustrated and let me know that our computers were inaccessible to her. She wouldn't have been able to see to print from our computers. I was extremely embarrassed to have so thoughtlessly assumed that anyone could access our computers. Unfortunately, accessibility at my institution campus-wide has not been a priority, and it became one of my goals to p...