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

Learners Take on Tech

Posts in this section offer educators bite-sized interventions to begin critically and accessibly shifting their digital praxis.

Learners with disabilities have distinct technology-integrated learning experiences, and distinct relationships with technology full stop. The videos, reflections, modelling and problem-posing strategies in these posts can be used by educators to ideate meaningful and critical changes toward more inclusive and accessible digital praxis.

Remember: stay focused on the learner, not the tech.

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

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 environment. (3 min read, 9 min video)
touch typing on keyboard adapted for screen reader use

Video: What digital accessibility practices support low-vision and blind learners?

In this video a learner explains the skills and technologies he uses to perceive, navigate and engage with peers and educators in post-secondary. (4 min read, 9 min video)
open laptop in front of a bookshelf with different types of print materials and an analogue tv system

Integrating Citations From Zotero Into WordPress With Zotpress, Critically?

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 in academic publishing. (10 min)

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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