Discussion: Equitability and Accessibility

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💡 Core Ability:

Inclusive Pedagogy⁠

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🎯 Purpose

This discussion forum asks you to consider the idea of equitability, giving each student what they need as they need it, and how accessible design is an equity practice. In practicing accessible design, this discussion forum asks you to choose a persona from the

BC Campus Accessibility Toolkit⁠

to experience your course from that person's perspective.

🎒 Task

Visit

BC Campus Accessibility Toolkit Using Personas⁠

to find out about how to use personas and select one of the six personas presented.

Go to your DEV course and choose one Canvas page, one assignment, and one video/audio/graphic element (if applicable) to examine.

Set your course to "Student View." (You may need to publish your course modules and pages to see all of the elements you selected)

Evaluate your course design decisions based on how well you think the character you have chosen might be able to interact with your DEV course.

❓ Prompt

Explain the persona you chose.

What challenges might the student face in navigating your course?

What changes could you make to improve your course accessibility for that student?

🎨 Format

Writing, audio or a video presentation

🧰 Resources

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Screencast and Instructional Videos⁠

: This link takes you to the Teaching Communities course where you will be prompted to enroll. Once enrolled, you will be able to review the module about screencast and recordings.

🔐 Tips for Success

Try to empathize with the persona and use their lens to navigate your course

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Beginner to Canvas Accessibility⁠

offers great tips on basic accessible design in Canvas

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Introduction to Web Accessibility⁠

is a great resource for accessibility

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