{"id":95040,"date":"2025-04-08T14:25:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T18:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=95040"},"modified":"2025-04-08T14:25:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T18:25:39","slug":"is-collaboration-the-key-to-digital-accessibility-jarvis-rhodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/04\/08\/is-collaboration-the-key-to-digital-accessibility-jarvis-rhodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Is collaboration the key to digital accessibility? [Jarvis &#038; Rhodes]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/campus\/collaboration-key-digital-accessibility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Is collaboration the key to digital accessibility?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>&#8212; from timeshighereducation.com by Sal Jarvis and George Rhodes<br \/>\n<em>Digital accessibility is ethically important, and a legal requirement, but it\u2019s also a lot of work. Here\u2019s how universities can collaborate and pool their expertise to make higher education accessible for all<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">How easy do you find it to navigate your way around your university\u2019s virtual estate\u00a0\u2013\u00a0its websites, virtual learning environment and other digital aspects? If the answer is \u201cnot very\u201d, we suspect you may not be alone. And for those of us who might access it differently\u00a0\u2013 without a mouse, for example, or through a screen reader or keyboard emulator \u2013 the challenge is multiplied. Digital accessibility is the wide-ranging work to make these challenges a thing of the past for everyone. It is a legal requirement and a moral imperative.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Make Things Accessible\u00a0is the outcome of a collaboration, initially between the University of Westminster and UCL, but now incorporating many other universities. It is a community of practice, a website and an archive of resources. It aims to make things accessible for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is collaboration the key to digital accessibility?\u00a0&#8212; from timeshighereducation.com by Sal Jarvis and George Rhodes Digital accessibility is ethically important, and a legal requirement, but it\u2019s also a lot of work. Here\u2019s how universities can collaborate and pool their expertise to make higher education accessible for all How easy do you find it to navigate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,190,851,127,433,171,382,38,214,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility-udl","category-assistive-technologies","category-bias-diversity-equity-inclusion-dei","category-collaboration","category-communications","category-consortiums","category-neurodivergent-special-needs","category-uk","category-universities","category-web-design-and-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95041,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95040\/revisions\/95041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}