Digital Accessibility Awareness Week
The University of Westminster celebrated Global Accessibility Awareness Day(GAAD) by organising a week-long series of webinars. Digital Accessibility specialists across the UK joined and shared their valuable experiences.
George Rhodes (Digital Accessibility Lead – University of Westminster ) kicked off the GAAD celebrations by sharing his views regarding digital accessibility and its importance in Higher Education. The GAAD celebrations continued for the next couple of days where industry experts presented their work, shared their experiences, and made some critical recommendations for the future.
Please check the video recordings of the sessions and some important resources shared during the week. Please contact us if you need any assistance.
Video Recordings
- Going Back is Not a Choice – Accessibility Lessons for Higher Education
- Accessible Recruitment: Easy steps to make recruiting more inclusive
- Accessible Music
- Thomas Pocklington Trust: Supporting Blind and Partially Sighted students
- Creating Inclusive and Accessible Workspace: University of Westminster’s Colleague Disability Network
- Sustainable Accessibility: Sustaining Accessibility efforts through accessibility-related appraisal objectives
- Teaching Accessibility as a shared endeavour: Answering key challenges in the building of accessible culture
Resources shared by the presenters and participants
- Going Back is not a Choice – Press Release and Full Report
- Making College Accessible: A Thomas Pocklington Trust resource
- Kicking Down the Doors: From Borstal Boy to University Professor
- Online learning is not the enemy
- Learn about the Employ Autism campaign
- Sonorama Train Journey
- Planning and Managing Web Accessibility
- Sustaining accessibility efforts through accessibility-related appraisal objectives
- Shifting Digital Accessibility Practice
- Three Adventures in Accessible Music Technology (AMT)
- Echolocation: How humans can “see” without sight
- Seeing With Your Ears: Making Music Production Accessible for the Visually Impaired
- This Blind Astrophysicist ‘Sees” the Universe in the most amazing way
- University of Kent’s Tactile Map (Draft )
- Accessible Technology Skills Gap Report
- Defining a strategy for digital accessibility
- DWP Accessibility Manual
The University of Westminster is thankful to all the participants and presenters for joining our GAAD celebrations. We take great pride in our contributions to making our digital spaces inclusive and accessible. Digital Accessibility initiatives are part of the university’s Being Westminster strategy to promote sustainable development. We look forward to continuing working to make our learning spaces accessible and to host many more valuable events to raise awareness regarding Digital Accessibility in the future.