10 year old presentation

 A ten year old could do this.

Remember that mindset of ‘ask a young person to help with the video recorder settings’

It made me question why aren’t 10 year olds doing this. How can we address accessibility if we aren’t educating people.

We educate our web developers, our teachers and technical support staff. We dive in with legal compliance and WCAG.

I’ve worked on educating the entire workforce in the basics. These are the basics we could teach in school or education.

Why?
Unlearning and preconceptions 

These present barriers we have to overcome even before we explain a basic concept.

It’s unlearning and retrofitting skills
Isn’t that everything we tell people not to do, we advise to think accessibility from the offset, to plan and develop with accessibility in mind, not fix at the end, which actually makes it more complex, challenging and furls the barriers to engagement.

Take the reports from Hassell e.g. low engagement 

Awareness in society isn’t there, TechShare pro it was highlighted we often preach to the converted but need wider acknowledgment and awareness.

In 20 years time will we be any further ahead without wider awareness. What if now we introduced this to our next generation, in 20 years time where would it be if it was baked into education and society.

What about recycling, it’s not necessarily on the curriculum but most young people know that plastic bottles and cardboard go in the recycle bin. Imagine digital accessibility being like this.
Imagine a young person pointing out that a video hasn’t had captions added, or a school project poster hasn’t got great colour contrast. Imagine being aware of camel case Hashtags or the proper use of emojis.

Something like these already have some great examples to draw from 
Show: frosty and hashtag video 

This is about setting the seed from the offset, making it part of society norm, this comes from awareness and education. 

The phrase,
‘great oaks from little acorns grow’ is a great perspective to look at this situation 

The basic skills and awareness as acorns, digital accessibility basics that also raise awareness about disability and the needs of others

The young people growing up digitally aware as they mature can truly thing digital and think everyone. The subject of digital accessibility a familiar thing to build upon, not be a challenging subject.

As a previous teacher myself I believe in the strong importance of EDI in the curriculum, imagine this can be implemented straight away and everyday from a young age, it could become a norm, from every social media post, word assignment or presentation done. Accessibility and content creation learnt correctly from day 1 doesn’t need retrofittting. 

Imagine the newsround scenario 

Career pathways are emerging (apprenticeships and government roles) but how can our young people follow this path if they’ve never heard of it? The only way it might enter their lives if they have been directly impacted, my own passion is because my sister has hearing loss from childhood, my son is on the Autistic spectrum and more recently I was inspired by my colleague who was blind and used a screen reader.
But recycling touches everyone, LGBT, cyber security

Young people could connect with this through their own experiences, situational so that connection is there, not a disconnect from disability because‘I don’t know anyone like that’ like I often hear when I’ve done training.

So how can you help me as teachers???

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