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Final part of literature review coding

Codes for papers that have taught examples REALWORLD: Info on foundational principles and authentic learning (real-world - relatable rationale. LO1: Awareness of disability types - identifying sight, sound, physical, cognitive / Perm/temp/sit - social model of disability awareness LO2: Barrier demonstrations - in-person speakers/videos/demonstrations/personas LO3: Legal and guidelines - WCAG/PSBAR and international laws/ Equality Act. LO4: Empathy and experiential - empathy labs to reinforce learning, experiential learning, working with disabled users  LO5: Digital skills development - WCAG and web development technical verses more simple types of principles - POUR/ SCULPT - identify the basics for foundational approach. Learning objectives, activities and resources (resources are currently mentioned in teacher knowledge section). Informing the intervention could be organised by learning objectives, resources and then a review of activities that have been effective. Resources could...

Papers to design questionnaire

  Make sure questions are compatible with current research. Questionnaire questions - teachers knowledge for teaching ally: Shinohara et al, 2018 Soares Guedes and Landoni, 2020 Parthasarathy and Joshi, 2024 Palan et al, 2017 Ludi et al, 2018 Useful - research model to frame questions Cao and Loiacono, 2017) Maybe: Hsiao et al, 2019 Whiting 2018 Murray et al. 2009 I have taught the subject of digital accessibility within the school classroom… I have never taught the subject  I have referred to digital accessibility in passing as part of a lesson  I have taught the principles of how to make content digitally accessible as a deliberate part of a lesson  I have taught several lessons about digital accessibility and how to make digital content accessible 

Microsoft to add to objectives section

  In their education center, Microsoft have similarly designed their accessibility fundamentals training to initially begin with what is disability, accessibility and assistive technology, then look at standards and regulations and then how to learn best practice skills (Microsoft, 2024). Accessibility fundamentals - Training | Microsoft Learn Useful fundamentals: https://contentdesign.london/shop/accessible-content-fundamentals-half-day-online

Sequencing

  SEQUENCE OBJECTIVES SEQUENCE Most participants (11 out of 13) indicated that awareness about how PWDs interact with software and technical knowledge of implementing and testing accessibility are the most suitable learning outcomes (LO) for CS courses. (Parthasarathy and Joshi, 2024) LEARNING OBJECTIVES SEQUENCE In the responses to the survey of Shinohara et al., the most common learning objective reported by instructors who teach accessibility was “Understand technology barriers faced by people with disabilities” [Shinohara et al, 2018]. This dovetails with the discussion of Putnam et al. of the instructional goal of cultivating empathy for those with disabilities [Putnam et al, 2016]. (Kearney-Volpe et al, 2019). LEARNING OBJECTIVES SEQUENCE Instructors were surveyed about the learning objectives that they used to guide the development of their accessibility enhancements/modules. The most common learning objectives reported by instructors were for students to understand technolo...

MS Word stats

  Cloudfiles (2024) How many files are there in the world? Online at: https://www.cloudfiles.io/blog/how-many-files-are-there-in-the-world According to the data released in 2016, more than 80K million Microsoft Word documents worldwide are created every year. Whereas this number is rising by 10%, reaching 88K million in 2017, over 20-25 years, it gives total Microsoft docs  at around 2-5  trillion. There are  147B videos , with around  25B new videos being uploaded each year  on multiple platforms, including Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, and more.

Lit rev notes to add

Although the teaching of DA is described as sparce (ref) Courses are beginning to emerge in post graduate education dedicated to related topics such as MA in AT (ref) in apprenticeships L4 (ref) and for the workplace there are many short courses available on places like LinkedIn (ref), Microsoft and blah (ref), as well as professional certification by IAAP (ref ). Resources also exist for the learning of digital accessibility, such as the giants of Microsoft support (ref), Goggle (ref) and Apple (ref), so digital accessibility is clearly acknowledged as a recognised education and necessary distinction or set of skills in our society. To feed into these disciplines and contextualise the need for digital accessibility in society, education plays a crucial role, yet at present the use and engagement with these only appears to be applied later in the lifelong learning journey. There is a backdrop of context to relate the learning to real-life. The profession of digital accessibility also e...