My Accessibility Saga continues further

Web Accessibility at was discussed at Educause 06 (in a discussion session facilitated by Terry Thompson.) We had participants from both industry and higher ed in the discussion, and this helped reinforce one of the ideas which has been becoming apparent to me as I've been converting my learning objects to, ummm, "enhance" their accessibility. (For more on this see my earlier blog posts with similar titles.)

I've also presented on this topic in two venues, along with my colleague Lisa Fiedor, who works with faculty and instructional designers to help them overcome accessibility problems in online material. The preparation, presentations, and Q&A have also fed into this idea.

"It's awareness, more than effort." is the straight-forward idea. It's not hard to build in accessibility, if one is aware of it all the time, but awareness can lapse if not cultivated.

That's why I think it is important to keep up a "buzz" about it - and to share the methods that ease implementation. (It was delightful at our presentations to have people in the audience say that they had learned useful simple techniques.)Back to the Educause session - we saw that there also is an awareness dimension at work in bring education and industry priorities into alignment. Educause, the premier locale for education/industry discussions, can play a very beneficial role. I encourage all of us to continue to make the conference and Connect the discussion forum for advancing accessibility!