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Teaching Accessibility in the Digital Skill Set

Project overview

Digital technologies have transformed daily life. Yet capacity for producing accessible digital tools and services has not kept pace with demand, exacerbating digital exclusion for disabled people and older people. To address this, ‘Teaching Accessibility in the Digital Skill Set’ is a 5 year research study (2019-2024) funded by UK Research and Innovation that seeks to build understanding of accessibility pedagogy, so that teachers of accessibility, trainers and peer-educators in academia and industry have empirical research and evidence-based resources to call upon when developing their teaching.

Staff

Lead researcher

Dr Sarah Lewthwaite BA(Hons), MA, PhD, FRSA

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Higher Education
  • Critical Disability Studies
  • Digital Accessibility

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Centre for Research in Inclusion

We work with teachers and young people to foster and improve inclusive practice.

Research outputs

Hierarchies of impairment and digital disability rights
Sarah Lewthwaite,
& Abi James
, 2023
DOI: 10.4324/9781003410089
Type: bookChapter
Workplace approaches to teaching digital accessibility
Sarah Lewthwaite,
Sarah Horton,
& Andy Coverdale
, 2023 , Frontiers in Computer Science , 5
DOI: 10.3389/fcomp.2023.1155864
Type: article
Researching pedagogy in digital accessibility education
Sarah Lewthwaite,
Andy Coverdale,
& Sarah Horton
, 2023 , SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing , 134
DOI: 10.1145/3582298.3582300
Type: article
Teaching accessibility as a shared endeavour: building capacity across academic and workplace contexts
Andy Coverdale,
Sarah Lewthwaite,
& Sarah Horton
, 2022
Type: conference
Motivating learners with accessibility professionalism
Sarah Horton,
Sarah Lewthwaite,
& Andrew Coverdale
, 2022
Type: other
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