Accessibility Bites Series 1.0
The first iteration of the Accessibility Bites series focused on hands-on learning exploring tools and practices that are key to creating digital content that is accessible for students with disabilities. The five sessions explored:
Scheduled for 30 minutes during the lunch hour once a month, the hope was to give busy educators bite-sized learning that they could put into practice right away. Each session followed a similar structure: a presentation of key concepts and practices, time to attendees to try it out for themselves, and a group discussion and questions.
The materials from this series have been compiled in this Pressbooks so it’s easy for people to continue to learn from and come back to this content. In addition, the session slides are openly licensed to allow others to adapt and offer the series for their own audiences.
About the Facilitator
Josie Gray (she/her) is a manager on the Open Education team at BCcampus, where she has worked to support and grow open educational practices in British Columbia, with a specific focus on critical and equitable practices. Josie leads BCcampus’s open publishing work and has expertise in open licenses, accessibility, Universal Design for Learning, and Pressbooks. Josie has been learning about and teaching accessibility best practices in OER since 2016 and has a Masters of Design in Inclusive Design.
