Digital accessibility and inclusion are not tech issues for disabled learners. Digital inaccessibility and marginalization in education are visceral, chronic symptoms of systemic ableism and unexamined oppression in the Academy.
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With the majority of journals and academic research references moving online, learners and educators in post-secondary are building digital citation…
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Learners from diverse backgrounds enter post-secondary institutions with more digital competencies and greater access to technology than ever before. Many…
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Consider the difference between these instructions for a presentation assessment: The examples are similar but the first focuses on the…
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Jung is adept at pointing out how academic accommodations fall short of delivering equitable learning experiences. This is one of…
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This article would be useful to educators beginning to grapple with the legacy of ablism within their courses and institutions….
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This paper offers some examples of “why” and “how” educators could make digital accessibility improvements to their courses. By attempting…
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Beyond Universal Design for Learning: Guiding Principles to Reduce Barriers to Digital & Media Literacy Competence Partially Digitally Accessible Version…
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This easy-to-digest podcast outlines things educators need to consider when thinking about what makes a learning environment or a pedagogical…
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Is teaching care work? A pathway to social justice? This book isn’t specifically about either education or digital accessibility but…
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This article offers an approachable, theoretically situated entry point for transformative research methods.
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This article prompts educators to look critically at how ableism has been designed into technology and how it colours our…
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This is a highly cited paper that offers some historical perspective (2010) and provides an overview of web accessibility issues…
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This book is a compendium of contemporary thinking and scholarship on the past, present and future digital practices in post-secondary…
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This is a foundational text from the Disability Justice movement and a must read.
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Transformative Praxis 1 hr workshop 2025 OTESSA ParticipantsDownload Transformative Digital Accessibility Praxis OTESSA HandoutDownload These are downloads for the OTESSA…
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An individual learner may experience digital inaccessibility in a learning environment or activity, or in materials and assessments. They may…
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In this video, a learner with progressive vision impairment explains how he began to lose his vision just as he…
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Since the COVID pivot, Zoom and a handful of other video conferencing platforms have transformed the way we think about…
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“Throughout the world, many [governments and non-governmental] organizations–universities, schools, and private companies–are recognizing that accessibility is a moral and business…
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When I began grad school, I thought I needed to do everything. The disarray of research was like a houseful…
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This brief paper illustrates what facets of digital accessibility are relevant for educators, and introduces the concept of “accessible digital…
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Unfamiliarity with how to read and write for digital accessibility represents a form of illiteracy whereby the disservice, injustice or…
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The current academic accommodations model forces individual learners to spend significant time and money to acquire “acceptable” diagnoses and medical…
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Typically, a learner is responsible for informing the educator at the start of term, if they have been granted academic…
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