Employees with disabilities at the University have the right to:

• Equal access to programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities offered through the University;
• An equal opportunity to work and to learn, and to receive reasonable accommodations;
• Appropriate confidentiality of all information regarding their disability and to choose to whom, outside of the University, information will be disclosed except as disclosures are required or permitted by law;
• Information, reasonably available in accessible formats.

Employees with disabilities at the University have the responsibility to:

• Meet qualifications and maintain essential institutional standards for courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities;
• Identify as an individual with a disability when an accommodation is needed and to seek information, counsel, and assistance as necessary;
• Document, from an appropriate professional, how the disability limits their participation in courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities;
• Follow published procedures for obtaining reasonable accommodation.

The University of Oklahoma has the right to:

• Identify and establish essential functions, abilities, skills, knowledge, and standards for courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities and to evaluate faculty and staff on this basis;
• Request and receive, through the Disability Resource Center, current documentation that supports requests for accommodations;
• Deny a request for accommodation if the documentation demonstrates that the request is not warranted or supported by the documentation;
• Select among equally effective accommodations through an interactive process;
• Refuse an unreasonable accommodation that imposes undue hardship.

The University of Oklahoma has the responsibility to:

• Provide information to faculty and staff with disabilities in an accessible format upon request;
• Ensure that courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities, when viewed in their entirety, are available and usable in the most integrated and appropriate settings;
• Evaluate faculty, staff, and job applicants on their abilities and not their disabilities;
• Provide or arrange reasonable accommodations;
• To maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication, except where permitted or required by law.