Social model argument

Framed by the social model of disability  I argue that we are not preparing our next generation with the basic awareness or knowledge to be digitally inclusive.

https://disabledpeoplesarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2021/01/001-FundamentalPrinciplesOfDisability-UPIAS-DA-22Nov1975.pdf

Intro that we live in a digital by default world where we rely on digital as a primary channel of communication and transactions. Early laws coming in e.g. web regulations, not just UK but internationally.

Beyond web regs we need the basics of reasonable adjustments to ensure everyday content has at least the basics applied. Until reasonable adjustments are explicitly described in equality act in terms of our digital world we may struggle because people may not know what that baseline looks like. People need standards or benchmarks.

The issues will be explored and then discussed in the literature review.

We currently have a training deficit in the curriculum and in workplaces for the development of awareness and trading around digital accessibility. 

Is not on the curriculum.

Both our teachers and students are not prepared to adopt digital accessibility principles and practices, even at basic level due to preconceived ideas, lack of guidance and resources and the lack of understanding the contextual need for these skills to be learned.

Both teachers and learners are not prepared therefore without teacher knowledge we need to work with both to produce a toolkit that is simple and easy to adopt.

We need to know what is known at school level and what type of support or toolkit we can provide to ensure basic awareness can be taught. Both teachers and learners will no doubt need support.


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