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What is Digital Accessibility? (And Why It’s Crucial at Schools)

ViewSonic Education

These can all assist users who may have physical impairments that make it difficult to operate a mouse, laptop touchpad, or touchscreen. . Accessibility Guidelines and POUR principles . One of the indicators that digital accessibility awareness has gained in power is the presence of global guidelines.

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Improving Accessibility Often Falls to Faculty. Here’s What They Can Do.

Edsurge

“I think the onus is still placed on the student with a disability” to ensure they have learning materials that they can benefit and learn from, says Kwong. That’s especially concerning to her, given assistive technologies alone won’t always help. You have to advocate for yourself.” Chief among those barriers?

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How to create accessible e-learning design

Neo LMS

In a recent post I touched upon the subject of designing for accessibility in e-learning. The things is, there are millions of people out there who are living with some sort of disability, and they all should be able to access online learning content the same as everyone else. How to create accessible e-learning design.

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How edtech can worsen racial inequality

The Hechinger Report

Its goal is to not only provide schools the resources they need to pick equitable ed tech products, but also to hold ed tech companies accountable for tools that could negatively affect historically underrepresented students. Hebbar said she’s seen racial biases in some of the personalized learning software available for schools.

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