EdTech: Accessibility and the law: Getting it right

Aim

This module shows you the issues and implications of current legislation around accessibility.

Objective

After completing this module you will be able to:
- identify the key elements of the law regarding accessibility
- describe the implications for your teaching practice

Digital Teaching Professional Framework

This module covers the EdTech component - F1 : Accessibility

• Provide equitable access to appropriate digital technologies and resources, e.g. ensuring that all learners have access to the digital technologies used.
• Select and use digital strategies which respond to the learner's digital context, e.g. contextual constraints to their technology use (e.g. availability, institutional restrictions - offender learning, work based learning), competences, expectations, attitudes, misconceptions and misuses.
• Use digital technologies and strategies, e.g. assistive technologies, designed for learners' in need of special support (e.g. learners with physical or mental constraints; learners with learning disorders).
• Consider and respond to potential accessibility issues when selecting, modifying or creating digital resources and to provide alternative or compensatory tools or approaches for learners with special needs.
• Use design principles for increasing accessibility for the resources and digital environments used in teaching.
• Continuously monitor and reflect on the suitability of the measures implemented to improve accessibility and adapt strategies accordingly.