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

Digital accessibility literacy skills are built upon W3C WAI strategies to include writing, production, work-checking, reading and curating skills.
Oct 12, 2024
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Awkwardly Able

I am a researcher with disabilities. Sometimes I am a disabled researcher. Sometimes I am an enabled researcher.(4 min)
Sep 15, 2024
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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…

Dec 6, 2024
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What I Didn’t Know About Text-to-Speech When I Started Using it in University.

Jun 18, 2024
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Digitally Inaccessible Readings Take Extra Time and Extra Cognitive Load

Jun 17, 2024
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Technology Restrictions and Able Inconveniences

Jun 16, 2024
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Perceptions of University by Students with an Invisible Disability

Apr 25, 2024
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Instructors’ Accommodation Discourse on the First Day of Class

Apr 16, 2024
Learner ExperiencesLearning From Learners

Digitally Inaccessible Readings Take Extra Time and Extra Cognitive Load

Jun 17, 2024
A woman's arms, carrying a heavy Stack of Books

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…

Learner ExperiencesLearning From Learners

Technology Restrictions and Able Inconveniences

Jun 16, 2024
Black female student hand writing an exam in a room full of students taking the exam.

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

Accommodations, Services and PoliciesStudent Voice

Perceptions of University by Students with an Invisible Disability

Apr 25, 2024
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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 “invisible” disabilities. 

Accommodations, Services and PoliciesCourse CommunicationDigital Accessibility in PraxisPost-Secondary Reading Rooms

Instructors’ Accommodation Discourse on the First Day of Class

Apr 16, 2024
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This study indicates few educators broach the subject on the first day of class when they review syllabi, policy and other course-structuring topics. It also…

Accommodations, Services and PoliciesPost-Secondary Reading Rooms

Learner Perceptions of Extended Time Accommodations

Apr 16, 2024
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This study illustrates assessment practices that can disable learners. Quotes from learners foreground their concerns with, and realities of, utilizing extra time accommodations.

Disability Justice, Digital Justice and Ethics in Digital Accessibility

Students with Disabilities as Partners in User Testing

Mar 12, 2024
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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 offers a Disability Justice informed,…

Unhiding Ableism

Does educator workload trump accessible teaching and learning practices?

Mar 5, 2024
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Very often, yes. With an untenable workload, educators have to prioritize. Those priorities can reflect both the ableist values of the institution and the precarity…

Unhiding Ableism

Inconvenience

Mar 5, 2024
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The ad hoc accommodations model renders learners an inconvenience. Typically, a learner is responsible for informing the educator at the start of term, if they…

Praxis Provocations

Provocations: Who is being accommodated?

Mar 2, 2024
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The current academic accommodations model forces individual learners to prove they are eligible for academic accommodations. And yet, learners are the ones patching up the…

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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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