{"id":9258,"date":"2025-04-21T09:09:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/cutheme-homepage\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T08:24:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:24:53","slug":"cutheme-homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessibility Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/09\/CU-CAN-128.png); 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