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Where digital accessibility isn't pass/fail. It's praxis.
  • Accommodations, Services and Policies | Digital Accessibility in Praxis | Post-Secondary Reading Rooms

    Web Accessibility Policies at Land-Grant Universities.

    June 20, 2025June 20, 2025

    This is a highly cited paper that offers some historical perspective (2010) and provides an overview of web accessibility issues at universities. It includes illustrative tables.

    Read More Web Accessibility Policies at Land-Grant Universities.Continue

  • Disability Justice, Digital Justice and Ethics in Digital Accessibility | Post-Secondary Reading Rooms

    Technology for People, not Disabilities

    June 20, 2025June 20, 2025

    This article prompts educators to look critically at how ableism has been designed into technology and how it colours our assumptions about what we expect of technology.

    Read More Technology for People, not DisabilitiesContinue

  • Disability Justice, Digital Justice and Ethics in Digital Accessibility | Post-Secondary Reading Rooms | Research Methods

    Transformative research: Personal and societal. A Mixed Methods approach.

    June 20, 2025June 20, 2025

    This article offers an approachable, theoretically situated entry point for transformative research methods.

    Read More Transformative research: Personal and societal. A Mixed Methods approach.Continue

  • Unhiding Ableism

    Conference Downloads

    May 31, 2025August 11, 2025

    These are slides for Digital Pedagogies 2025 participants.

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  • Overhead Shot of a Group of People working at computers
    Transformative Digital Accessibility Praxis

    What is Transformative Digital Accessibility?

    March 22, 2025May 13, 2025

    Web accessibility’s definition has evolved once, and we need it to evolve again. This post looks at the roots of digital accessibility and where a transformative digital accessibility could take us.

    Read More What is Transformative Digital Accessibility?Continue

  • Book Club | Pedagogy Reading Rooms

    Teaching to Transgress

    December 6, 2024December 6, 2024

    Hooks notion of engaged pedagogy builds on critical pedagogy of the oppressed theories by expressly discussing the politics of engaging with the non-normative bodies in the classroom. She she also talks about the radial notion of “well being” in the classroom. This text offers educators pedagogical pathways toward anti-racist and anti-oppressive learning environments.

    Read More Teaching to TransgressContinue

  • Green Leafy Tree in front of Red and Gray Concrete buildings with many doors
    Transformative Digital Accessibility Praxis

    Entry Points for Transformative Digital Accessibility Praxis Reflections

    October 14, 2024April 24, 2025

    Entry points for educators to reflect on digital skills, choices, actions and beliefs that affect the accessibility of our digital practices in teaching.

    Read More Entry Points for Transformative Digital Accessibility Praxis ReflectionsContinue

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    Transformative Digital Accessibility Praxis

    Digital Accessibility Literacy Skills: Reading, Writing, and Producing Accessible Media

    October 12, 2024June 24, 2025

    Digital accessibility literacy skills are built upon W3C WAI strategies to include writing, production, work-checking, reading and curating skills.

    Read More Digital Accessibility Literacy Skills: Reading, Writing, and Producing Accessible MediaContinue

  • the hands of a black man lurch to catch his falling camera
    Learner Experiences

    Awkwardly Able

    September 15, 2024October 27, 2024

    I am a researcher with disabilities. Sometimes I am a disabled researcher. Sometimes I am an enabled researcher.(4 min)

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  • Digital Accessibility in Praxis

    Can Workplaces, Classrooms, and Pedagogies Be Disabling?

    July 24, 2024June 20, 2025

    In a special disability-focused issue of the journal, multiple theories and perspectives on accessibility in teaching and learning, and in the workplace, are explored. Oswal’s introduction offers a concise summary of the articles, grounding them in the historical, political and contemporary thinking on disability.

    Read More Can Workplaces, Classrooms, and Pedagogies Be Disabling?Continue

  • Digital Accessibility in Praxis | Pedagogy Reading Rooms

    A Pedagogical Approach to Orienting Access in Classrooms

    July 23, 2024December 6, 2024

    Educators like seeing theory and practical strategies come together. This theory-building paper offers many practical steps educators can take to make their courses more accessible to learners with and without disabilities.

    Read More A Pedagogical Approach to Orienting Access in ClassroomsContinue

  • Accommodations, Services and Policies | UDL

    Canadian Landscape of Accessibility and Accommodations in Post-Secondary

    July 18, 2024October 6, 2024

    This report, commissioned by the Federal government, offers both an analysis of the current landscape and detailed recommendations for pathways to improve educational experiences and outcomes for learners with disabilities.

    Read More Canadian Landscape of Accessibility and Accommodations in Post-SecondaryContinue

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    Learner Experiences | Learning From Learners

    What I Didn’t Know About Text-to-Speech When I Started Using it in University.

    June 18, 2024March 16, 2025

    What makes reading with text-to-speech technology a distinctly different reading experience? And how can you support it? (2 min read, 3 min video)

    Read More What I Didn’t Know About Text-to-Speech When I Started Using it in University.Continue

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    Learner Experiences | Learning From Learners

    Digitally Inaccessible Readings Take Extra Time and Extra Cognitive Load

    June 17, 2024October 24, 2024

    Educators assume a learner who needs help finding a book can just ask the library. But getting help isn’t always that straightforward. (3 min read + Unhiding Some of the Extra Work Artifact)

    Read More Digitally Inaccessible Readings Take Extra Time and Extra Cognitive LoadContinue

  • Black female student hand writing an exam in a room full of students taking the exam.
    Learner Experiences | Learning From Learners

    Technology Restrictions and Able Inconveniences

    June 16, 2024October 6, 2024

    These experiences have been curated to offer diverse glimpses into how learners with disabilities experience inaccessibility in education. (10 min)

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Land Acknowledgment

First a note for people reading with a screen reader or text-to-speech technology: the land acknowledgement text you are about to hear uses two words from two Indigenous languages. Unfortunately, the words may come across as unintelligible because the fonts and keyboards used to author the languages have not been integrated into all assistive technologies and therefore can't yet be accurately interpreted and voiced by your technology.

People who read by sight will see the Indigenous spelling of the words, followed by an Anglicized phonetic spelling of those words, which may also be unintelligible to you. We have yet to develop conventions to offer you a culturally educative reading/voicing of words written in Indigenous languages. I see you and I'm sorry you have to wait for society to attend to, and agree on, ways to include you in linguistic decolonizing practices. For now, I've put buttons with sound clips of the Indigenous words at the end of the acknowledgement. Play the sound clips to hear the words spoken by language speakers.

I live, work and imagine on lands that have historically been stewarded by the Lək̓ʷəŋən (pronounced L-kwun-en) speaking peoples, now known as Victoria, BC. I am drawn to the shores stewarded by the W̱SÁNEĆ (pronounced Wh-say-nech) peoples. I am an uninvited settler. These lands and all the beings here inform my experiences of learning, sharing knowledge and being in community with others.

Play: Le kwun enPlay: Wh say nech

Pronunciations by niltuo.ca.

This research is supported by the BCcampus Research Fellows Program.

This program provides B.C. post-secondary educators and students with funding to conduct small-scale research on teaching and learning, as well as explore evidence-based teaching practices that focus on student success and learning.

The BCCampus logo with a a tagline: Learning. Doing. Leading.

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