Recent dispatches from CanDARE
Posts are regularly added to the Praxis, Learning from Learners and Library sections of the CanDARE site. See all the latest posts here.
What is Transformative Digital Accessibility?
Teaching to Transgress
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…
This study illustrates assessment practices that can disable learners. Quotes from learners foreground their concerns with, and realities of, utilizing extra time accommodations.
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Unfamiliarity with how to read and write for digital accessibility represents a form of illiteracy whereby the disservice…
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…
A poem about nervous system overwhelm, research overwhelm and new beginnings. ( 2min)
“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…