AbstractIn this article we describe the experience of several Portuguese Higher Education Institutions (HEI) that in the midst of a legislative void regarding the inclusion of students with special education's needs, try to work their way into the inclusion of those students through cooperation.We will focus on how that cooperation came into being, the shape it took and describe in detail the work done by the group to promote accessibility to information and information systems, raise awareness to the issue of inclusion of diversity in HEI specially the inclusion of students with special education's needs and to finish mentioning the difficulties faced and the line of action planned for the future.