The University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) has launched a new tool to identify barriers to accessibility on its campus.

The new  Accessibility Form was timed to coincide with Indigenous Disability Awareness Month in November, and International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Sunday December 3rd.

With this feedback mechanism in place, the University will be better able to identify what barriers people are experiencing across campus, it’s also a portal where people can identify potential solutions to these issues.

Within the form, there are five categories that accessibility barriers fall under -- attitudinal; organizational or systemic; architectural or physical; information or communications; and technological.

CFUR News talked to Mindy Gobbi, an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Specialist; and Jean Bowen, an Access Coordinator at the Access Resource Centre. They both sit on UNBC’s Accessibility Committee and participated in the development of the feedback mechanism.