The accessibility experiences of stakeholders
These notes are part of a series for the book.
Outline
- Introduction
- Mediated voices
- Expert voices
- Lone voices
- Lecturers’ voices
- Learning technologists’ voices
- Student support workers’ and managers’ voices
- Reflexive voices
- Conclusion
Notes
This is a short chapter in an otherwise fact-packed book. Seale wants to share first-hand experiences of stakeholders as it has been published in academic articles. There wasn’t much for her to choose from.
She mentions a few surveys, but they arm you with figures but give no context or reasoning for the figures. She found ‘six publications, reporting the experiences of 10 practitioners’ (Seale, 2014, p. 157) and noted that such a small sampling can’t really represent the whole. I appreciated the effort, but felt the excerpts she shared didn’t provide much more than what is already known — some people want to do better with accessibility in their work, others don’t, some are frustrated by the technology, others are excited by the challenge.