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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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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Our current understandings of digital accessibility are shaped by the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative‘s evolving definition…
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Very often, yes. With an untenable workload, educators have to prioritize. Those priorities can reflect both the ableist values of…
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This case study makes a unique contribution by delving into the ethics of digital accessibility testing in post-secondary education. It…
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This study illustrates assessment practices that can disable learners. Quotes from learners foreground their concerns with, and realities of, utilizing…
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This study indicates few educators broach the subject on the first day of class when they review syllabi, policy and…
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This brief paper offers insights into the lived experience of 10 learners from an Ontario university who self-identify as having…
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Technology restrictions in the name of academic integrity, and digital choices that favour the convenience of the many over the…
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Despite most academic publishers moving online, many textbooks, library books, archival materials and other research and teaching resources are still…
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This 3-minute video illustrates just a little of what makes reading with text-to-speech (TTS) a distinct reading experience. Warning: At…
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This report, commissioned by the Federal government, offers both an analysis of the current landscape and detailed recommendations for pathways…
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Educators like seeing theory and practical strategies come together. This theory-building paper offers many practical steps educators can take to…
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In a special disability-focused issue of the journal, multiple theories and perspectives on accessibility in teaching and learning, and in…
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I am a researcher with disabilities. Sometimes I am a disabled researcher. Sometimes I am an enabled researcher. Sometimes I…
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Engaging with specific digital accessibility skills as literacy skills is an act of rhetorical resistance in an ableist education system…
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Hooks notion of engaged pedagogy builds on critical pedagogy of the oppressed theories by expressly discussing the politics of engaging…
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The kind of checklists that typically shadow digital accessibility in education are antithetical to transformative, relational praxis. However, we do…
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