Time for digital inclusion at scale

How can foundational digital accessibility awareness be introduced into the Upper Key Stage 2 school classroom and curriculum? What are the learning components that make up foundational digital accessibility awareness education? What is the readiness of teachers at Upper Key Stage 2 to be able to teach digital accessibility awareness? How can the learning components of digital accessibility awareness be integrated into the Upper Key Stage 2 classroom and what type of support resources would be needed? How do learners respond to aspects of digital accessibility awareness being integrated into lessons at Upper Key Stage 2? (Pilot studies in 3 schools).

The ENABLED e-learning material was built specifically to reflect the five core components identified through the literature, and was put together by selecting introductory level content and activities from sources such as, The Teach Access Tutorial and their Fundamental concepts and skills framework guidance (Teach Access, 2022; 2025), the Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competences (CPACC) course from the International Association of Accessibility Practitioners (IAAP, 2023), The digital accessibility curricula framework from W3C (W3C, 2022), Microsoft's Accessibility fundamentals course content (Microsoft, 2025) and the Department of Educations Introduction to the basics of accessibility and inclusive design taken from their Accessibility and inclusive design manual (Department of Education, nd). All of these sources offer a valid and recognised source of relevant instruction in the field of digital accessibility and education, however the majority are aimed at educa...

  Each section of enabled - and where this could fit on computing or PSHE KS2 curriculum inc resource suggestions, so it fleshes out the e-learning as guidance for teachers. Extra page at the end of each section that links to L2E site - suggestions and resources/ resource ideas

  Research design framed around the development of PCK guidance and resources built from the phased aspects of pedagogy as planned, enacted and experienced.   ADD this into diagram. Read DBR books to elaborate the iterative design- pragmatic mixed methods. Each phase iteratively builds upon previous.

  Abbott, C (2021) Defining a strategy for accessibility. Online at:   https://www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/defining-a-strategy-for-accessibility/   (Accessed 5 June 2025) The problem is that legislation and the documentation surrounding it isn't particularly accessible. It's fragmented. It's complex. It's often written in jargon or it's written so subjectively it's left wide-open to interpretation (Abbott, 2021). We found that generally the biggest barriers for any organisation delivering accessible services are: a poor understanding of accessibility and why it's important a lack of clear guidance or documentation a lack of structured training difficulty obtaining expensive tools such as JAWS and Dragon difficulty recruiting users who have impairments