Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. In the ed tech space, news abounds with accessibility headlines; see some news articles below. This might seem like an irrelevant topic, especially if you, like me, are of the privileged majority of people who have no limitations to accessing digital tools. As digital accessibility deadlines loom, […]
Even More Musings on Assistive Technology, Universal Design, Equity, and Access
Have you ever learned something new and, shortly after that, you see or hear about that same thing? Me too! The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, also known as the frequency illusion, is a phenomenon where something you recently learned seems to appear everywhere. This happened to me this week. After completing the last assignment, a few different […]
Musings on Assistive Technology, Universal Design, Equity, and Access
This week, we were provided a wide variety of readings and resources covering the full spectrum of topics and issues about assistive technology, universal design, equity, and access. This module has been one of my favorites of this course so far this semester. I have always been interested in accessibility from a general sense, not […]
Exploration of Digital Tools: A Web-based Tool Evaluation
For this assignment, I had the opportunity to explore a wide variety of digital tools, choose one to create an assignment, and complete the assignment as if I was a student. I have zero prior experience working with apps related to education, and no schools that I work with use any either, so I was […]