Supporting and developing your digital accessibility progress.
Alice and I form the digital accessibility unit at York. Disability Services often refer students to us for additional digital skills support. We also offer support to the lecturers who are working with these students, some of whom have severe visual impairment. We had a discussion about our experience so far this academic year on … Continue reading Creating tactile graphics for VI students – part 1
Sign up for Wednesday 5 Feb • 1pm to 2.30pm • LFA/144 Sign up for Tuesday 11 Feb • 1pm to 2.30pm • LFA/144 Drawing on the experiences of staff and current students, this workshop for Uni of York staff and students explores how teaching practices can be made more accessible to visually impaired students. … Continue reading 5 Feb and 11 Feb 2025 Workshop: Supporting Visually Impaired students who use screen magnifiers
The Braille in Focus event in November 2024 was organised by the Scottish Sensory Centre to celebrate the 200 years since braille was created by Louis Braille in France. Apart from learning about the history of braille, it was an opportunity to meet with other people supporting blind students and to try out some of … Continue reading Reflections on the Braille in Focus event, Nov 2024, Edinburgh
Alice Bennett, Lilian Joy, Digital Accessibility Unit, University of York. Context Over 55 participants attended two workshops on Supporting Visually Impaired (VI) students held in September and October 2024. These workshops were the first of their kind run at the University of York, so were a little experimental. The workshops were instigated by a simple … Continue reading Reflections on our Supporting visually impaired students workshop.
Welcome to our new unit and our new blog site! We’re excited to have a specific team promoting Digital Accessibility at York, consisting of Lilian Joy and Alice Bennett. Both of us have been working in this area for a while under separate teams but we now form a unit under the Student Success area … Continue reading New Digital Accessibility Unit at York
