Integrating Citations From Zotero Into WordPress With Zotpress, Critically?
With the majority of journals and academic research references moving online, learners and educators in post-secondary are building digital citation…
Assuming learners can “figure out” any ICT
Learners from diverse backgrounds enter post-secondary institutions with more digital competencies and greater access to technology than ever before. Many…
Presentation assessment specifies one ICT
Consider the difference between these instructions for a presentation assessment: The examples are similar but the first focuses on the…
Chronic Illness and Academic Accommodation
Jung is adept at pointing out how academic accommodations fall short of delivering equitable learning experiences. This is one of…
Saying No to the Checklist
This article would be useful to educators beginning to grapple with the legacy of ablism within their courses and institutions….
Inclusive Design in Online and Blended Courses
This paper offers some examples of “why” and “how” educators could make digital accessibility improvements to their courses. By attempting…
UDL (Without Digital Accessibility) in Digital & Media Literacy
Beyond Universal Design for Learning: Guiding Principles to Reduce Barriers to Digital & Media Literacy Competence Partially Digitally Accessible Version…
Accessible Pedagogy is Not Just UDL
This easy-to-digest podcast outlines things educators need to consider when thinking about what makes a learning environment or a pedagogical…
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Is teaching care work? A pathway to social justice? This book isn’t specifically about either education or digital accessibility but…
Transformative research: Personal and societal. A Mixed Methods approach.
This article offers an approachable, theoretically situated entry point for transformative research methods.
Technology for People, not Disabilities
This article prompts educators to look critically at how ableism has been designed into technology and how it colours our…
Web Accessibility Policies at Land-Grant Universities.
This is a highly cited paper that offers some historical perspective (2010) and provides an overview of web accessibility issues…
Improving Accessible Digital Practices in Higher Education
This book is a compendium of contemporary thinking and scholarship on the past, present and future digital practices in post-secondary…
A Disability Justice Primer
This is a foundational text from the Disability Justice movement and a must read.
Workshop Downloads
Transformative Praxis 1 hr workshop 2025 OTESSA ParticipantsDownload Transformative Digital Accessibility Praxis OTESSA HandoutDownload These are downloads for the OTESSA…
Provocations: Individualized accommodations for digital accessibility issues pull disabled learners out of community.
An individual learner may experience digital inaccessibility in a learning environment or activity, or in materials and assessments. They may…
Video: What digital accessibility practices support low-vision and blind learners?
In this video, a learner with progressive vision impairment explains how he began to lose his vision just as he…
Video: What makes a video conferencing environment feel like an inclusive space?
Since the COVID pivot, Zoom and a handful of other video conferencing platforms have transformed the way we think about…
Provocations: When Would be a Good Time?
“Throughout the world, many [governments and non-governmental] organizations–universities, schools, and private companies–are recognizing that accessibility is a moral and business…
Digital Accessibility Research Overwhelm
When I began grad school, I thought I needed to do everything. The disarray of research was like a houseful…
Reframing Digital Accessibility in Post-Secondary Education For Educators
This brief paper illustrates what facets of digital accessibility are relevant for educators, and introduces the concept of “accessible digital…
Digital Accessibility Illiteracy: What Happens When A Literacy Is Left Undeveloped?
Unfamiliarity with how to read and write for digital accessibility represents a form of illiteracy whereby the disservice, injustice or…
Provocations: Who is being accommodated?
The current academic accommodations model forces individual learners to spend significant time and money to acquire “acceptable” diagnoses and medical…
Inconvenience
Typically, a learner is responsible for informing the educator at the start of term, if they have been granted academic…
