Inconvenience
Typically, a learner is responsible for informing the educator at the start of term, if they have been granted academic…
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What is Transformative Digital Accessibility?
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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Does educator workload trump accessible teaching and learning practices?
Very often, yes. With an untenable workload, educators have to prioritize. Those priorities can reflect both the ableist values of…
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Students with Disabilities as Partners in User Testing
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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Learner Perceptions of Extended Time Accommodations
This study illustrates assessment practices that can disable learners. Quotes from learners foreground their concerns with, and realities of, utilizing…
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Instructors’ Accommodation Discourse on the First Day of Class
This study indicates few educators broach the subject on the first day of class when they review syllabi, policy and…
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Perceptions of University by Students with an Invisible Disability
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 and Able Inconveniences
Technology restrictions in the name of academic integrity, and digital choices that favour the convenience of the many over the…
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Digitally Inaccessible Readings Take Extra Time and Extra Cognitive Load
Despite most academic publishers moving online, many textbooks, library books, archival materials and other research and teaching resources are still…
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What I Didn’t Know About Text-to-Speech When I Started Using it in University.
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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Silver tsunami or golden opportunity?
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Canadian Landscape of Accessibility and Accommodations in Post-Secondary
This report, commissioned by the Federal government, offers both an analysis of the current landscape and detailed recommendations for pathways…
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A Pedagogical Approach to Orienting Access in Classrooms
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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Can Workplaces, Classrooms, and Pedagogies Be Disabling?
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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Awkwardly Able
I am a researcher with disabilities. Sometimes I am a disabled researcher. Sometimes I am an enabled researcher. Sometimes I…
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Digital Accessibility Literacy Skills: Reading, Writing, and Producing Accessible Media
Engaging with specific digital accessibility skills as literacy skills is an act of rhetorical resistance in an ableist education system…
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Teaching to Transgress
Hooks notion of engaged pedagogy builds on critical pedagogy of the oppressed theories by expressly discussing the politics of engaging…
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Entry Points for Transformative Digital Accessibility Praxis Reflections
The kind of checklists that typically shadow digital accessibility in education are antithetical to transformative, relational praxis. However, we do…
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Don’t rely on PDFs
Somehow, somewhen, PDFs became sort of lodged in people’s brains as a very serious way of delivering very serious information….
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Training with Independent Living Housing Society
Yesterday was exciting for two reasons: Ambit was invited to facilitate a training with the Independent Living Housing Society, an…
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Translated Materials for Survivors: Part 1
Increasingly, people are talking about sexualized violence and are recognizing the need to work together to address the impacts of…
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In general, hyperlinks should open in the same window
Making hyperlinks is a foundational skill in web publishing. Links have everything to do with usability, accessibility, search engine optimization,…
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Translated Materials for Survivors: Part 2
We here at VSAC believe it is critical to meet the language support needs of newcomer, refugee, and/or international student…
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Always write good alternative text
Images on a website can be really important content. They give context, shape meaning, and move readers. It is really…
