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Enhancing Inclusion for Neurodivergent Students in Mathematics and Statistics

17 September 2025 saw me visiting the University of Coventry for the Enhancing Inclusion for Neurodivergent Students in Mathematics and Statistics workshop. This was held in collaboration with the University of Bath and funded by the London Mathematical Society (LMS). The event was held at the Library, a wonderful building with silent and group study … Continue reading Enhancing Inclusion for Neurodivergent Students in Mathematics and Statistics

Reflections on DigAcc25

The digital accessibility conference, DigAcc25, that took place in June 2025 continues to resonate with me. This blog post is a delayed reflection on the event; by writing about it, it’s also an opportunity to review what I learned and how I intend to take any ideas forward in the year ahead. Organised by the … Continue reading Reflections on DigAcc25

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 3

Tactile resources are useful to supplement the digital versions of resources, enabling a student to use multiple senses to understand the data, patterns and connections. In Part 1 of our Tactile Graphics blog series, I was just starting to tackle the heatmap resource shown below. Lots of digital tools are good at providing data through … Continue reading Creating tactile graphics for VI students – part 3

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

5 Feb and 11 Feb 2025 Workshop: Supporting Visually Impaired students who use screen magnifiers

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

Reflections on the Braille in Focus event, Nov 2024, Edinburgh

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