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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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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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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