Michigan State University is committed to providing equal opportunity for full participation in programs, services, and activities. RCPD has compiled resources that promote and advance accessibility across campus.
MSU’s Office of the ADA Coordinator facilitates the University’s compliance with its Disability & Reasonable Accommodation, Anti-Discrimination, and Digital Accessibility policies, as well as state and federal anti-discrimination laws.
For more information regarding disability discrimination, harassment or retaliation, reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, assistive technology, building access, or other accessibility concerns, please contact ADA Coordinator the ADA and Section 504 Coordinator.
MSU strives to employ concepts of universal design to integrate accessibility features in new and existing structures. Institutional Space, Planning, and Management address any architectural issues that arise and maintain an online suggestion box that invites students, staff, and visitors to identify these issues for improvement.
The Office of Planning & Budgets provides a map of location of all restrooms on campus designated as single-occupant restrooms. Students, employees, and visitors at Michigan State University may use the restroom that corresponds with their gender identity. For ease of identifying the restroom that best meets individual needs, the map's marking pins have been color coded to differentiate between accessible and non-accessible restrooms.
MSU also offers several lactation/wellness rooms across campus.
RCPD strives to make our digital content accessible to all people with disabilities. We designed our website to meet W3C AA and MSU accessibility standards. The MSU Web Accessibility Policy defines the accessibility requirements for university websites and web-delivered content. The current Technical Guidelines require that pages meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at Conformance Level AA.
If you find that any area of this website is inaccessible to you, please let us know by contacting our office.
MSU provides a web access site containing resources to ensure cross-campus accessibility in web content.
Disability parking placards and license plates are issued through the Secretary of State or Department of Motor Vehicles. RCPD does NOT issue parking passes, disability placards, or disability license plates.
MSU provides accessible parking throughout campus. Please note:
All students operating or parking a vehicle on MSU property must register the vehicle (including motorcycles, mopeds and bicycles) with the MSU Police Department via the Parking Office.
For more information about accessible parking requirements and campus parking, visit the MSU Parking Services Accessible Parking website.
The Capital Area Transit Authority (CATA) offers transportation services for Michigan State University's campus, and the surrounding area.
Visit our Assistive Technology page for resources.
Classrooms across campus are equipped with assistive listening devices (ALDs). Students and faculty are welcome to contact our office for more information.
Visit the Spartans Athletics site for more information about accessible seating at Spartan sports events!
The site was designed with screen reader users in mind. We have used a variety of useful markers throughout the page including customary heading levels easily accessed in JAWS and NVDA browsing with the heading level H or Shift-H commands.
We employed a range of other control types to help you get to key areas quickly. Edit boxes accessed with E from either JAWS or NVDA will help you find typable content areas. Buttons accessed with the B key will help you quickly find these elements.
ARIA markup is also useful. As an example, each of our key articles are marked with Article Landmarks which affords quick access. Similarly, ARIA Region markup helps navigate to major sections of the page. Consult your screen reader documentation to fully benefit from this markup. Finally, the page features a Site Index combo box near the bottom of the screen which enables you to scan and jump to any pages on the site from an alphabetized list.
While Browsing use:
Q –Navigate to the main region on the page (past the navigational regions and into the main content)
R – Navigate to the next region on the page
O – Navigate to the start of an article (useful after selecting a link as it moves to beginning of an article)
H or Shift-H – Navigate by heading
L or Shift L – Jump to the next or previous list of items on the page
I or Shift-I – Navigate by item within a list
C - Jumps to the combo box that allows you full access to the site page. Use a letter once in the combo box or just arrow up and down followed by tabbing to the Go button to jump directly to the selected page. This keystroke also jumps to accordion items when they exist on a page.
Many of the same commands described for JAWS above work in NVDA. The exception is ARIA Landmarks are accessed in NVDA with the NVDA key plus F7.