17% of students have declared themselves as being Dyslexic at UAL which is on par with the national figure of 16%. However the number of people working in the creative industry who are neurodiverse is higher with some reports doubling …
The predominant file type on Moodle is PDF. In 2021, there we as many as 10,821 PDFs on LCC Moodle sites alone, which is roughly equivalent to 16 PDFs per site! Providing we have carried out the accessibility checks and …
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The popular platform of mentimeter have just launched a range of new slide options. Mentimeter is great for making your lectures more interactive. As well as polls, quiz questions, true or false and my personal favourite word cloud; you can …
As with word documents you want to make your presentations accessible. If you follow a few simple guideline during the design process your presentations will be easier to read and process for everyone. In this blog post we are going …
Dictation or speech to text is often a forgotten about tool. If you or your students are visually impaired or you find it useful to verbally express your thoughts or for notetaking, then it’s worth exploring dictation tools. It can …
Captions for video content are embedded into everyday media consumption such as YouTube, Netflix and other social media platforms. As much as 92% of videos on mobile devices are viewed without sound. Therefore when students come into learning environments they …
It can be a bit annoying coming out of teams to go to another platform such as whiteboard. Sharing links and waiting for people to open browsers can slow down the flow of a lesson. Now Whiteboard has full integration. …
Making your documents more accessible is not just about running them through accessibility checkers, it’s about making it a habit. If you only run your documents through an accessibility checker, then you are only doing half the job. You need …
At this year’s ALT (Association for Learning Technology) conference which ran 7-9th September the phrase Netiquette kept coming up. At first, I thought I had misheard it or there was some mispronunciation. It kept coming up. During the session on Future Pedagogical Imaginings somewhere between Blended and Hy-flex, I wrote in …