Spoons, Stories, and Solidarity: Behind the Scenes of our Disability Inclusion Toolkit

We have another guest blog – Niamh Malone and Isabella Brinton, two of the wonderful interns from the Disability Inclusion Toolkit project, reflect on the process of creating the toolkit and their experiences creating it, introduced by Dr Alexander Reid, project lead: The ‘Including Disabled People in Research’ Toolkit is a resource to support and … Continue reading Spoons, Stories, and Solidarity: Behind the Scenes of our Disability Inclusion Toolkit

Open Research and Digital Accessibility: Guest Blog Post

As a small team working to spread accessible digital practice far and wide, we’re always collaborating with colleagues across the university (and beyond!). We’re delighted to share a post from a guest, Katie Vernon, Graduate Engagement Lead for Open Research and Postgraduate Researcher in the Centre for Medieval Studies, outlining how open research and digital … Continue reading Open Research and Digital Accessibility: Guest Blog Post

Teaching low vision students workshop

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 2pm to 3.30pm, in person in Spring Lane Building SLB/105 We’re running another workshop designed to help University of York teaching staff better support students with low vision, outlining the different ways teaching materials and digital practices can be made more accessible to low vision students. The session will cover key considerations … Continue reading Teaching low vision students workshop

2025: Our Year in Review

The Digital Accessibility Unit is 1! We were formed in late 2024, so we’ve just completed our first full year and wanted to share a few stats and highlights from our first year: Our linktr.ee/DigAccYork has our key links including our Bluesky account (@uoydigacc.bsky.social). We work closely with other teams in the Student Success Unit … Continue reading 2025: Our Year in Review

UK Disability History Month 2025

We often look for national or international days (or weeks, or months) we can tie in with to help promote our work as the Digital Accessibility Unit, as well as awareness of tools, training and services around digital accessibility. So as November rolled round, we knew UK Disability History Month was the next big calendar … Continue reading UK Disability History Month 2025

Making accessibility training accessible

“Who watches the watchmen?” is a famous question. Less well known but also worth considering is “How accessible is accessibility training?”. To improve digital accessibility in society, we need as many people as possible to engage positively with training and adopt more inclusive habits and accessible practice. Therefore accessibility training needs to be accessible in … Continue reading Making accessibility training accessible

Creating tactile graphics for VI students – part 2

Tactile resources and alternative formats This is the second blog post about our efforts to find alternative formats to make teaching materials accessible to visually impaired students. Previously on this blog, Lilian’s blog post focused on the challenges of expressing different kinds of graphs in tactile formats, a common problem in supporting visually impaired students … Continue reading Creating tactile graphics for VI students – part 2

AI and Accessibility: feature, the future or fad?

What do we mean by AI? The term AI is used a lot. From the context, you’ve probably guessed we’re not talking about Avian Influenza or Artificial Insemination, but instead we’re in the realms of Artificial Intelligence. But even then, what do we mean by AI? It’s something of an umbrella term now, but the … Continue reading AI and Accessibility: feature, the future or fad?