By Dan Axson (Learning Technologies Manager) In May 2024, I wrote a post titled ‘What if our students with disabilities didn’t have to jump through hoops to have an equitable experience.’ You’ll be forgiven for not having read it, it…
By Dan Axson (Learning Technologies Manager) In May 2024, I wrote a post titled ‘What if our students with disabilities didn’t have to jump through hoops to have an equitable experience.’ You’ll be forgiven for not having read it, it…
by Mark Thomas, Learning Technologist The Digital Accessibility Conference (DAC) 2024 hosted by Nottingham University last week was my first experience of a “distributed conference”. It brought together an international audience, with 20+ institutions taking part. The welcome session made…
Accurate transcripts are important for people who need them, whether it be for deaf students, international students or perhaps where there is a lot of technical language. For each of these groups, inaccurate transcripts can be severely impactful when it…
by Sam Hemsley, Academic Developer, University of Sussex One of the first pieces of work I took on when joining the Educational Enhancement team as an Academic Developer in September 2021, was to contribute to the content of a guidance…
This week Caley Yardley, Doctoral Tutor in Physics, talks about how we can support our trans colleagues and students by sharing our pronouns. For many, pronouns can seem a very trivial thing, but I think there is a power in…
My first year at Sussex as a Learning Technologist has been a transformative journey, enriched by the parallel experience of supporting my daughter through her inaugural year at a different university. This dual perspective has underscored the critical importance of…
I love Michael Moseley’s BBC podcast. In each episode he suggests ’Just One Thing‘ to increase your health and wellbeing. The recent Global Accessibility Awareness Day got me thinking of whether there’s just one thing you can do as module…
When making digital content accessible, adding alternative text to images is key. But in a presentation on Demystifying alternative text for complex images at a recent Future Teacher session, Matthew Deeprose from the University of Southampton showed how not all…