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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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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 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.
Jul 24, 2024
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What is Transformative Digital Accessibility?

Web accessibility’s definition has evolved once, and we need it to evolve again. This post looks at the roots of…

Mar 22, 2025
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Does educator workload trump accessible teaching and learning practices?

Mar 5, 2024
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Inconvenience

Mar 5, 2024
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Provocations: Who is being accommodated?

Mar 2, 2024
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Digital Accessibility Illiteracy: What Happens When A Literacy Is Left Undeveloped?

Mar 2, 2024
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Reframing Digital Accessibility in Post-Secondary Education For Educators

Feb 28, 2024
Praxis Provocations

Provocations: Individualized accommodations for digital accessibility issues pull disabled learners out of community.

Dec 31, 2023
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An individual learner may experience digital inaccessibility in learning environments, activities, materials and assessments, all within their learning community.

Book ClubDisability Justice, Digital Justice and Ethics in Digital AccessibilityPost-Secondary Reading Rooms

A Disability Justice Primer

Nov 28, 2023
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This is a foundational text from the Disability Justice movement and a must read.

Accommodations, Services and PoliciesBook ClubDigital Accessibility in PraxisUDL

Improving Accessible Digital Practices in Higher Education

Oct 25, 2023
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This book is a compendium of contemporary thinking and scholarship on the past, present and future digital practices in post-secondary education relative to learners with…

Book ClubDisability Justice, Digital Justice and Ethics in Digital Accessibility

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Oct 24, 2023
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Is teaching care work? A pathway to social justice? This book isn’t specifically about either education or digital accessibility but it is a raw, evocative…

Digital Accessibility in PraxisUDL

Accessible Pedagogy is Not Just UDL

Oct 5, 2023
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This easy-to-digest podcast outlines things educators need to consider when thinking about what makes a learning environment or a pedagogical approach accessible in post-secondary.

Digital Accessibility in PraxisUDL

UDL (Without Digital Accessibility) in Digital & Media Literacy

Sep 14, 2023
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This article is included here with my “points of contention” annotations to illustrate how the UDL framework and much UDL literature ignores digital accessibility and…

Digital Accessibility in PraxisUDL

Inclusive Design in Online and Blended Courses

Sep 4, 2023
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This paper offers some examples of “why” and “how” educators could make digital accessibility improvements to their courses. By attempting to map WCAG 2.0, and…

Digital Accessibility in PraxisUDL

Saying No to the Checklist

Aug 28, 2023
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This article would be useful to educators beginning to grapple with the legacy of ablism within their courses and institutions. This critical piece of writing…

Accommodations, Services and Policies

Chronic Illness and Academic Accommodation

Aug 18, 2023
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Jung is adept at pointing out how academic accommodations fall short of delivering equitable learning experiences. This is one of the very few academic papers…

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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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