Blooms, SCULPT and compliance

 https://sketchplanations.com/blooms-taxonomy

This website has a great sketch to explain Blooms Taxonomy.

Knowledge 

Understanding 

Application 

Analyse 

Evaluate 

Create

It’s a great model to demonstrate what’s happening in digital accessibility at the moment. People come to digital accessibility often at the higher level of blooms and are overwhelmed by it. Google is littered with information to analyse, strategise and create accessible content often then driven by compliance. 

The real learning happens at the start to understand why, and I don’t mean the big why, I mean the user experience. Understanding where it fits with your existing knowledge or skills, understanding the impact of new ones helps you apply it properly. These are the basics to embed. Only then is it about applying digital inclusion in the right way to understand the impact.

There is a great video by Dax Castro that demonstrates a document that is ‘compliant’ but is actually poor for the user experience. Interestingly automated checks only account for what can be found in a software program and is absolutely no replacement or substitute for an authentic user experience.

Even in my own team we get caught up on what the checkers tell us but is what we are allowing on the web truly a good user experience, not really.

Here is the video, and what I’m referring to is the first PowerPoint example he shows ‘compliance verses accessible’

https://youtu.be/GlrkF49ws10

SCULPT focuses on the underpinning understanding of ‘why’ and what the experience is. It addresses baseline understanding. These skills are just the starting point, not the end point. Knowledge and understanding to apply it.

Basic understanding and widespread awareness is when culture shifts, keeping it to just those interested in technical compliance isn’t. Keeping the knowledge in just in teams of enthusiasts or technical specialists doesn’t have room to grow, culture shift does and that’s where change happens.

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