Communities of Practice

There are a lot of artefacts inside and outside my organisation which create points of focus for developing accessible resources. Internal artefacts include our policy, values and mission statement. We are close to student feedback and this provides key areas to focus on. External artefacts include a wide range of resources from websites, blogs, books [...]

Activity theory

  Seale (2006) identifies six potential areas for conflict or contradiction within an organisation or activity system; with regards to individual responses to accessibility. There is a contradiction in my organisation, as Seale (2006) discusses, which relates to poorly designed tools. Witt and McDermott (2002) state difficulties in interpreting accessibility guidelines. They are not clear [...]

Institutional responses to accessibility

 There are incentives I think for my organisation to develop or improve the accessibility of its online resources. These are around reputation and branding and working in line with its company values and mission. There are also incentives from students and their feedback, needs and desires for accessible resources. There are also clear key performance [...]