 Center for Neuro-Technology, creating access for all. Access ERC is a project funded by the National Science Foundation. It's actually a supplemental grant to the Engineering Research Center at the University of Washington also funded by the National Science Foundation. And there are about 15 of these centers across the country and we were funded to help the other centers recruit and employ and engage individuals with disabilities in everything they do. When we are organizing events, you know, we try to make them accessible to all. We ask people for their accessibility needs and I work really, really hard to make sure everybody feels comfortable with whatever they do need. The website is the first entrance into our program into what we do and if that population cannot access it, what good is it? So another aspect of this space that we really enjoy is the flexibility in the furniture. We can set it up in many different configurations to engage users but we can also clear it out of the way if we have an event where many people with assistive devices are present. It's really an element of universal design. I've worked in diversity for quite some time and sometimes the conversation about diversity can focus very much on one or two particular groups in part racial minorities and women and not as much be discussed about persons with disabilities. ERCs are designed to have huge impact in society by solving some of the major challenges in engineering that society is currently facing and in order to have that kind of impact and to solve these important problems we need to include every section of society including people with disabilities in all aspects of ERCs. To learn more about how you can incorporate accessibility and universal design in engineering research centers visit the Access ERC website hosted by the University of Washington. Washington.edu-doit-programs-access-erc Access ERC is a supplement of the Center for Neurotechnology National Science Foundation grant number EEC-1028725 Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this video are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Copyright 2022, University of Washington permission is granted to copy these materials for educational non-commercial purposes provided the source is acknowledged.