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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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Canadian Landscape of Accessibility and Accommodations in Post-Secondary

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.
Jul 18, 2024
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What I Didn’t Know About Text-to-Speech When I Started Using it in University.

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)
Jun 18, 2024
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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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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
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Digital Accessibility Research Overwhelm

Feb 5, 2024
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Provocations: When Would be a Good Time?

Jan 19, 2024
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Video: What makes a video conferencing environment feel like an inclusive space?

Jan 5, 2024
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…

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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…

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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…

Unhiding Ableism

Presentation assessment specifies one ICT

Aug 18, 2023
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Presentation assessments can make a lot of learners nervous. They be made more accessible to all learners when learners choose what ICT and presentation format…

Unhiding Ableism

Assuming learners can “figure out” any ICT

Aug 18, 2023
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Not all learners are able to meaningfully engage with all forms of ICT. Educators can inadvertently create disabling assessment requirements by specifying novel ICT or…

Learners Take on Tech

Integrating Citations From Zotero Into WordPress With Zotpress, Critically?

Aug 18, 2023
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This post looks briefly at the accessibility of Zotpress, then takes a step back to raise questions about the digital accessibility of common citation practices…

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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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