Supporting and developing your digital accessibility progress.
We prepped for the annual Digital Accessibility conference headed up by the University of Nottingham as always by lining up freebies and cake. As we did in previous years, we streamed the sessions from each parallel session in three rooms, and booked a pod to allow staff who were presenting to have somewhere quiet to … Continue reading Reflections on DigAcc26
Reflections on the Jisc Powered by People event.
How to celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) when we’re in the middle of assessments here at the University of York? Do it a week earlier when everyone can participate! 14 May saw us celebrating our inaugural University Accessibility Awareness Day (UAAD). We were excited to have Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Kiran Trehan start the day for … Continue reading Accessibility Awareness Day
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
The Jisc Accessible Maths working group started in 2021. It was formed from a small group of people in the Jisc Accessibility Community who showed interest in working on this topic and were mostly NOT maths lecturers but a mix of learning technologists (LT) or people with accessibility roles. After Fiona McNab, our first chair, … Continue reading Accessible Maths and Learning Technology
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
To celebrate World Braille Day (4 Jan), we’re releasing this blog post about a workshop that we ran in October 2025, introducing staff to braille and ways to support our blind students who use braille at the University. Despite the prevalence of digital technologies, braille is still very important for literacy, to support multiple modes … Continue reading Braille and tactile materials to support Vision-Impaired students – workshop reflections
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
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
The Jisc Accessibility Community ran a Drop-In on the 1st October entitled ‘Braille Matters’. We had a very enlightening presentation by Elizabeth McCann from the Scottish Sensory Centre, introducing the history of braille and why it is still important despite the prevalence of digital technology. I was invited to give my perspective as a learning … Continue reading Braille Matters