The presenter spoke quite quickly,and there was a lot of points on the slides, so I didn’t catch everything. I also focused more on design aspects than anything else.
Defining Inclusive Design
- design that is inclusive of the full range of human diversity with respect to ability, language, culture, gender, age, and other forms of human difference
- designing for diversity
Digital Exclusion
- access to online systems no longer an option
- estimated social and economic cost of digital exclusion
- required for government, commerce, education ,etc.
Bridging the Gap
- developers design for the typical or average user
- Assistive technology (AT) is intended to bridge the gap to reach anyone that requires alternative access systems
- this bridge is inadequate: only some disabilities and only reaches a few countries
Specialized Assistive Technology
- 28% of the world
- rising in cost
- decreasing in availability
Accessibility Legislation
- necessary foundation for systematic change
- AODA groundbreaking approach to legislating accessibility
- but currently
- hard to update
- hard to keep current
- accessibility requirements seen to constrain innovation
- fear of implementing new technologies
- one-size-fits-all solution
Global Consensus
- need new approach
- especially with an aging population, which needs more alternatives as they grow older
True Accessibility
- ability of the service or environment to adopt to the user’s needs
- flexibility and adaptability are key
- Concept: Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII)
- reduce barriers
- enables diversity and innovation
Need New Approach
- more inclusive of full diversity of learners
- more relevant to educational demands
- more timely and continuously renewable
- contextualized or embedded in learner’s context