Time for digital inclusion at scale

  Context and introduction World has changed to digital - in every corner of daily life. Accessibility - Tim Berners Lee - access quote- his vision for everyone to participate in our digital society. 1 in 5 have some form of disability  Assistive technologies and screen readers only work if content is made in an accessible way Issue of vast amount of inaccessible content. #The legal and strategic backdrop . Legal context - nationally and internationally. Strategies and acknowledgement of new job roles (apprenticeships and IAAP) - the discipline of ICT. Social model of disability - nothing about us, without us - moving away from medical model and negative assumptions of disabled people. Social responsibility/social justice/human right. Argument that social model can only work if people have the knowledge and skills - it’s more than just public bodies and more than just websites - everyday content such as documents, emails, presentations, social media - made by everyone, not jus...

Digital Accessibility awareness is not taught at any level of education yet our digital society is inaccessible to many people.  To be socially responsible, and like other subjects like online safety and data protection, we need to be teaching our next generation who enter the workplace how to be inclusive in our digital society.  There are many everyday principles and skills for digital accessibility awareness that can be learned and applied by anyone, no matter what IT skills level, yet in this area the only focus is within the more technical and specialist discipline of web design. Creating accessible documents, presentations, video, audio and social media content is left behind and often does not get picked up until later in the workplace or when an organisation gets a complaint, yet there are many very simple things that people can do. Our education system does not yet serve these vital educational vocational skills, yet in FE we are meant to prepare people for the 21st c...

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  https://www.bcs.org/articles-opinion-and-research/house-of-lords-committee-backs-bcs-call-for-reform-of-computing-qualifications-for-14-16-year-olds/ https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2023-06-08/debates/3909427F-05F5-4158-A552-7D7A1D910439/SchoolsCurriculumUpdate https://socialmediaforlearning.com/2016/03/26/how-to-cite-social-media-in-academic-writing/ ME: During covid it became very apparent how vital accessibility was.  White House https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2023/12/21/omb-releases-digital-accessibility-guidance-to-ensure-all-americans-have-ability-to-access-critical-government-resources/

WTFocus and accessibility tab on view source    https://a11y-tools.com/bookmarklets/wtf/ Word documents training  https://learn.intopia.digital/courses/creating-accessible-word-documents Useful campaign accessibility  https://www.edf-feph.org/is-your-political-campaign-accessible-assess-with-our-checklists/