For many colleges and universities, this digital instability no longer appears as major outages or systemwide failures.

The issue is no longer simply whether colleges and universities are technologically capable or technically compliant. It is whether they are prepared for what comes next.

The breach affected nearly 9,000 schools and educational institutions worldwide during one of the busiest periods of the academic year.

Two blind graduate students say inaccessible digital materials at West Virginia University kept them from fully accessing their education. A new ADA rule will soon require public colleges to meet clearer digital accessibility standards.