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  • Accommodations, Services and Policies | Digital Accessibility in Praxis | Post-Secondary Reading Rooms

    Web Accessibility Policies at Land-Grant Universities.

    June 20, 2025June 20, 2025

    This is a highly cited paper that offers some historical perspective (2010) and provides an overview of web accessibility issues at universities. It includes illustrative tables.

    Read More Web Accessibility Policies at Land-Grant Universities.Continue

  • Disability Justice, Digital Justice and Ethics in Digital Accessibility | Post-Secondary Reading Rooms

    Technology for People, not Disabilities

    June 20, 2025June 20, 2025

    This article prompts educators to look critically at how ableism has been designed into technology and how it colours our assumptions about what we expect of technology.

    Read More Technology for People, not DisabilitiesContinue

  • Disability Justice, Digital Justice and Ethics in Digital Accessibility | Post-Secondary Reading Rooms | Research Methods

    Transformative research: Personal and societal. A Mixed Methods approach.

    June 20, 2025June 20, 2025

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

    Read More Transformative research: Personal and societal. A Mixed Methods approach.Continue

  • Book Club | Pedagogy Reading Rooms

    Teaching to Transgress

    December 6, 2024December 6, 2024

    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.

    Read More Teaching to TransgressContinue

  • Digital Accessibility in Praxis | Pedagogy Reading Rooms

    A Pedagogical Approach to Orienting Access in Classrooms

    July 23, 2024December 6, 2024

    Educators like seeing theory and practical strategies come together. This theory-building paper offers many practical steps educators can take to make their courses more accessible to learners with and without disabilities.

    Read More A Pedagogical Approach to Orienting Access in ClassroomsContinue

  • Accommodations, Services and Policies | Student Voice

    Perceptions of University by Students with an Invisible Disability

    April 25, 2024November 28, 2024

    This brief paper offers insights into the lived experience of 10 learners from an Ontario university who self-identify as having “invisible” disabilities. 

    Read More Perceptions of University by Students with an Invisible DisabilityContinue

  • Accommodations, Services and Policies | Course Communication | Digital Accessibility in Praxis | Post-Secondary Reading Rooms

    Instructors’ Accommodation Discourse on the First Day of Class

    April 16, 2024October 6, 2024

    This study indicates few educators broach the subject on the first day of class when they review syllabi, policy and other course-structuring topics. It also contrasts a relational and inclusive approach with more typical transactional talk.

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  • Accommodations, Services and Policies | Post-Secondary Reading Rooms

    Learner Perceptions of Extended Time Accommodations

    April 16, 2024October 6, 2024

    This study illustrates assessment practices that can disable learners. Quotes from learners foreground their concerns with, and realities of, utilizing extra time accommodations.

    Read More Learner Perceptions of Extended Time AccommodationsContinue

  • Disability Justice, Digital Justice and Ethics in Digital Accessibility

    Students with Disabilities as Partners in User Testing

    March 12, 2024December 6, 2024

    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, disabled-learner-centred model for participation that could be replicated by researchers and those involved in the development, testing and procurement of educational technology in post-secondary.

    Read More Students with Disabilities as Partners in User TestingContinue

  • Digital Accessibility in Praxis | Disability Justice, Digital Justice and Ethics in Digital Accessibility

    Reframing Digital Accessibility in Post-Secondary Education For Educators

    February 28, 2024October 14, 2024

    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 related to reading, identifying, curating, and writing/creating accessible digital content.

    Read More Reframing Digital Accessibility in Post-Secondary Education For EducatorsContinue

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    Praxis Provocations

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

    December 31, 2023October 15, 2024

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

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

  • Book Club | Disability Justice, Digital Justice and Ethics in Digital Accessibility | Post-Secondary Reading Rooms

    A Disability Justice Primer

    November 28, 2023December 6, 2024

    This is a foundational text from the Disability Justice movement and a must read.

    Read More A Disability Justice PrimerContinue

  • Accommodations, Services and Policies | Book Club | Digital Accessibility in Praxis | UDL

    Improving Accessible Digital Practices in Higher Education

    October 25, 2023October 6, 2024

    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 disabilities.

    Read More Improving Accessible Digital Practices in Higher EducationContinue

  • Digital Accessibility in Praxis | UDL

    Accessible Pedagogy is Not Just UDL

    October 5, 2023October 6, 2024

    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.

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  • Digital Accessibility in Praxis | UDL

    UDL (Without Digital Accessibility) in Digital & Media Literacy

    September 14, 2023December 6, 2024

    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 accessible social learning experiences, and how uncritical application of UDL principles to address the needs of disabled learners can inadvertently marginalize disabled learners in post-secondary.

    Read More UDL (Without Digital Accessibility) in Digital & Media LiteracyContinue

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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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