Digital inclusion is worth fighting for….
Last night I talked to the Hull Web Developers about digital inclusion. Here are the key points from the presentation. For many people with limited mobility and/or sensory impairment, the Internet...
View ArticleGreat day… if only the media would report on it
Great day for digital inclusion – or it would be if only the media would report on it. Neil Lewis Chief Executive of AbilityNet has highlighted the need for addressing inclusion because of the...
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Who’s responsibility is it?
Talking to a group of level three online-journalism students about digital divides. The group made accurate suggestions for what digital divides might look like, including incompatible file formats,...
View Articleinaccessible internet not getting the attention it deserves…
Digital Exclusion, a research report by the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group, tells us digital strategy across government continues to prioritise online channels creating a digital divide and ‘…urge the...
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OpenDyslexic; open design for open access?
Openness has become part of the language of higher education. Open academic practice includes open educational resources, open source and open course ware; all examples of the affordances of the...
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Yet another government digital inclusion strategy… yawn!
It’s been a while since I blogged about digital inclusion. In the meantime the Government Digital Service team have produced a checklist stating ‘if we do these things, we’re doing digital...
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Loving the WAI of W3C
I love the WAI part of W3C. The language is user-friendly, the layout intuitive and above all they talk about what matters, the accessibility of digital design. I love it even more because the WAI...
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Reasonable adjustments; have you made yours?
This week the Inclusive Digital Resources Working Group met for the first time. The aim of this group is to make recommendations for ensuring all students/staff have access to accessible and inclusive...
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Shades of grey and white
The IDER (Inclusive Digital Educational Resources) Working Group meets again this week. It’s time to think about making recommendations. The process will be helped by recent agreement on the Blackboard...
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Changing discourse of digital exclusion, Martha Lane Fox and the Dimbleby...
In the 2015 Dimbleby Lecture, Martha Lane Fox called for de-commercialisation of the interne (transcript) and setting up an independent body, informed by the ‘….original promises of the internet –...
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