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Making Accessibility the Assignment: What First-Year Writing Students Taught Me About Inclusive Pedagogy

WCET Frontiers

What began as a simple technical task quickly became a powerful lesson in empathy, ethics, and inclusive communication. Why format their reflections for screen readers and assistive technologies? The assignment was helping students become more thoughtful, inclusive communicators. Why caption? Its about doing things right.

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Inclusive Teaching Begins with Authenticity

Faculty Focus

Here’s an inconvenient truth about inclusive teaching: there are no quick fixes. A new author they can add to their course to make it more diverse and inclusive. In other words, we need to take the time to create inclusive learning communities if we’re going to make the most of teaching and learning. Do they respect you?

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Meeting the Looming Web Accessibility Regulations: The Time to Start Was Yesterday

WCET Frontiers

NWHeat (Northwest Higher Education Accessibility Technology) is a partnership between Orbis Cascade Alliance (for libraries) and the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium (NWACC). Links to the document for: WCET members and for SAN members. The featured speaker was Mary Lou Mobley of National Digital Access Team within the U.S.

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Will GenAI narrow or widen the digital divide in higher education?

SRHE

Introduction the widening digital divide Our recent study ( Zhou et al , 2025 ) surveyed 595 undergraduate students across the UK to examine the evolving digital divide across all forms of digital technologies. Rethink training with inclusion in mind : GenAI literacy training must go beyond traditional models.

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New Technology and Attitudes Emerge from the Pandemic

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In general, it’s really opened conversations about flexibility and thinking about how we can use technology to be more inclusive to provide opportunities.” We had some of our colleagues provide advice on using educational technology. Technological advances In the five years that Gibson-Gayle has been at St.

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Inclusive Teaching Begins with Authenticity

Faculty Focus

Here’s an inconvenient truth about inclusive teaching: there are no quick fixes. A new author they can add to their course to make it more diverse and inclusive. In other words, we need to take the time to create inclusive learning communities if we’re going to make the most of teaching and learning. Do they respect you?

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How Project 2025’s War on Higher Education Diversity Threatens Our Global Competitiveness

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This document, a roadmap for the next conservative presidential administration, frames diversity and inclusion efforts as a coordinated attack on American values, advocating for a radical restructuring of federal education policy that would have devastating consequences for historically underrepresented students.