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Real Connections: Making Distance Learning Accessible to Everyone

"This video presentation provides guidelines for designing Internet-based distance learning courses to fully include all students and instructors, including those with disabilities." 11:55 minutes.

University of Washington, DO-IT

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Posted by: jhertzke on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 4:18 p.m.

This video is excellent in introducing some fundamental accessibility principles surrounding Distance Learning, providing detailed explanations and examples. With that in mind, the major drawback is that the video is from 2015 - Technology has advanced so far within the last 8 years (especially regarding distance learning because of the 2020 pandemic) that this video isn’t as helpful as it could be for contemporary contexts.

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It took me several years of struggling with the heavy door to my building, sometimes having to wait until a person stronger came along, to realize that the door was an accessibility problem, not only for me, but for others as well. And I did not notice, until one of my students pointed it out, that the lack of signs that could be read from a distance at my university forced people with mobility impairments to expend a lot of energy unnecessarily, searching for rooms and offices. Although I have encountered this difficulty myself on days when walking was exhausting to me, I interpreted it, automatically, as a problem arising from my illness (as I did with the door), rather than as a problem arising from the built environment having been created for too narrow a range of people and situations.

Susan Wendell, author of
The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability