Accessibility isn’t one-size-fits-all. Accommodations address barriers UDL can’t always predict. They are not interchangeable and one doesn’t take priority over the other.
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Accessibility isn’t one-size-fits-all. Accommodations address barriers UDL can’t always predict. They are not interchangeable and one doesn’t take priority over the other.
Both are necessary! UDL is not a magic wand. Accommodations are individualized supports for specific needs. We need BOTH.
Once more for the people in the back: UDL does not replace accommodations.
Yes, please!
would really love to see a post mortem examining this shitshow in detail, with names and emails and receipts
Newspapers clipping of the massacre at école polytechnique in Montreal, Canada in 1989
On December 6, we remember 🕊️
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
This site has been great in making me more aware of and using (not all the time - I still slip up) alt text. But it also strikes me as one of the more obvious uses of basic AI, ans auto populate alt text for us with a description of the image.
Conspiracy theory: alt text is only there to improve AI image recognition models. Accessibility is a happy byproduct. AI doesn't understand why a single frame of Captain Picard resting his forehead on his hand has cultural relevance in a tweet about, say, sports. Alt text in a skeet adds context.
Yeah, I want to be sympathetic to the idea behind alt text, but it's a pain to do, and often the post text itself already "describes" the image. Plus, like you said, why isn't AI doing this. This is an actual useful use case for AI tools. Also some people are obsessive about blog length alt text.
My thinking on #AltText is evolving to be: rather than nagging individuals for behavioral change (for a relatively high-cost low-reward activity), which will never work, we should all pester @bsky.app product to build AI alt-tag drafting into the app / product. #UX
Most common examples of #Technoableism I see these days? Believing alt text is a "problem" to be solved by AI.
So many of you would benefit from developing a mutual aid mentality. Alt text is one form. Examples: #Alt4Me #Alt4You #AltTextPalestine.
The answer is community, not AI.
Doing research on disability and using AI in higher ed. If there are any case studies/articles/other resources you’d like to share, please do!
Infographic showing stats on adverse experiences experienced by trans students
87% of Canadian trans students surveyed reported feeling unsafe at school.
We need to do better.
Lives literally depend on it.
#TransDayOfRemembrance
Great guide on the praxis and theory of GenAI refusal as a strategy and tactic. Even for those embracing GenAI, this guide offers an excellent boundary-setting process.
Also, three researchers I respect immensely.
refusinggenai.wordpress.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
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go.bsky.app/BYF1JZJ
I attended a webinar by Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton yesterday on postplagiarism, AI, and academic integrity. It was genuinely excellent, especially when she touched on Indigenous ways of sharing knowledge (attribution). Watch and access resources here: teachonline.ca/webinar/post...
I feel like this site's demographics can be described as "still mad about the loss of Google Reader"
For anyone who missed this when it came out:
wow there are nearly 6,000 starter packs on the Bluesky starter pack directory now
something for every taste
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
Genuinely inclusive and equitable teaching involves translating moral principles into concrete pedagogical practices. The most daunting challenge often lies in devising the latter in ways that actually work for specific institutional contexts and student populations. #pedagogy #sociology #UCSD
My ORE piece on Gen Z & Pedagogy is out! Thanks @victorasal.bsky.social for the opportunity to contribute. It is paywalled, but your library may have access and if you’re an ISA member, you have access via ISAnet.org
doi.org/10.1093/acre...
It’s not the rich kids who will be taught by AI.