Toying with ideas - part 1

 I believe that digital accessibility should be part of school education to underpin awareness and acceptance of the small things that can be done to make a difference.

To be able to implement such an awareness and skills model it needs to be appropriate to the school setting but also be received positively around a normal perception and set of support behaviours that can be easily put in place to help others.

Most digital accessibility models are later and implemented as add-ons, extras or deficit fix rather than a natural part of the process. In education we need to find out where the basics can be best understood and adopted to make it a seamless part of education and understanding the differences in people and their digital needs in the 21st Century. 

Digital accessibility in its basic form can be simply applied but only if you understand why you are doing it.

This means understanding the range of disabilities people have, e.g. permanent, temporary or situational.

It also mean’s aligning these to using technology e.g. using captions in a library to watch your educational video without headphones. 

Analysing teachers and students awareness in this setting is vital.

Where can this be applied, what subjects, what pastoral/tutorials education? PHSE?

Study of the landscape of understanding and identify where digital accessibility fits in school education.

What do learners and teacher know, what do they need, when is it best to start/approach it.

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