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Where digital accessibility isn't pass/fail. It's praxis.

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Posts are regularly added to the Praxis, Learning from Learners and Library sections of the CanDARE site. See all the latest posts here.

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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 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.
Dec 6, 2024
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Entry Points for Transformative Digital Accessibility Praxis Reflections

Entry points for educators to reflect on digital skills, choices, actions and beliefs that affect the accessibility of our digital practices in teaching.
Oct 14, 2024
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Transformative research: Personal and societal. A Mixed Methods approach.

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

Jun 20, 2025
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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
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Learner Perceptions of Extended Time Accommodations

Apr 16, 2024
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…

Transformative Digital Accessibility Praxis

Digital Accessibility Illiteracy: What Happens When A Literacy Is Left Undeveloped?

Mar 2, 2024
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Unfamiliarity with how to read and write for digital accessibility represents a form of illiteracy whereby the disservice…

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Reframing Digital Accessibility in Post-Secondary Education For Educators

Feb 28, 2024
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This brief paper illustrates what facets of digital accessibility are relevant for educators, and introduces the concept of  “accessible digital content literacy skills,” skills specifically…

Learner Experiences

Digital Accessibility Research Overwhelm

Feb 5, 2024
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A poem about nervous system overwhelm, research overwhelm and new beginnings. ( 2min)

Praxis Provocations

Provocations: When Would be a Good Time?

Jan 19, 2024
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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 imperative; many are adopting policies…

Learners Take on Tech

Video: What makes a video conferencing environment feel like an inclusive space?

Jan 5, 2024
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In this video, people with diverse experiences of disability share practices that help them to perceive, understand and engage with others in the video conferencing…

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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.

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