Educational technology plays an important role improving learning for all students.
However, students with disabilities frequently face basic physical and product access barriers that prevent them from using educational technology to benefit their learning. Access solutions exist. Screen readers that voices the text on the screen of each web page can overcome barriers to accessing the Internet encountered by students who are blind. Captions built into multimedia programs can overcome barriers for students who are deaf. Some access solutions, using principles of universal design, are built right into the hardware or software, such as captions.