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Inclusive #Edtech Silo Buster & Evangelist, lover of punny jokes, #InclusiveEdTech, #a11y, #UDL, #ATchat, #CommunAT, #AltTextChallenge, life is an adventure,

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There are 2 great books in the daily kindle sales today- Unmasking Autism by Devon Price & the Disability Visibility anthology edited by Alice Wong. $1.99 each! #SLPeeps #ATchat #BskySpeechies

25.09.2025 17:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Capitalization affects how people read hashtags or how people hear them on screen readers. Use #camelCase or #PascalCase in hashtags instead of lowercase. You could have #DoctorWhoRewatch ("Doctor Who Rewatch") or #doctorwhorewatch ("doctor whore watch.")

11.09.2025 21:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 94    ๐Ÿ” 51    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
Accessibility Skills Hiring Toolkit Teach Access provides the Accessibility Skills Hiring Toolkit to help organizations build internal capacity for producing accessible digital products by developing a knowledgeable and skilled workforc...

If you're looking to hire people with accessibility knowledge and experience, the Accessibility Skills Hiring Toolkit created by Teach Access can help you. The toolkit provides language to use when writing job ads, and questions to ask when interviewing.

teachaccess.github.io/accessibilit...

10.09.2025 14:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why I never wanted to be a #Teacher ๐Ÿ™ˆ
Why the #CITESFramework is NOT another initiative ๐Ÿšซ
Finding my space in #HoH ๐Ÿฆป
How my cousin changed the course of my life ๐Ÿ˜‡
Please take a listen ๐Ÿ’š

#InclusiveTech #UDL #EdTech #EduSky #Podcast
@ksuding.bsky.social
@dtourudl.bsky.social
@eyeonaxs.bsky.social

10.09.2025 14:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Season 5 of The Learning Podcast kicks off with Breaking Barriers with CITES. Guest @techmia.bsky.social explains how inclusive tech is about designing systems that remove barriers for every learner.

Listen now: www.cast.org/resources/ti...

09.09.2025 14:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Very informative on #AI #EduSky

07.09.2025 13:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Vox Product Accessibility Guidelines As journalists, advertisers, producers, and creators, content is at our core at Vox Media. We want to ensure that everyoneโ€”regardless of ability, situation, or contextโ€”can access it.

Everyone who works on a website has a role to ensure the site and its content are accessible. This resource from Vox Media breaks down some accessibility tasks by job role, including content creators, designers, developers, project managers, and testers.

accessibility.voxmedia.com

07.09.2025 03:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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13 Days of Accessibility Review the 13 WCAG 2.1 guidelines that web designers and developers can follow to create accessible websites.

Kasey Bonifacio's 13 Days of Accessibility is a great way to dig into the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, which are international standards used to measure accessibility. Kasey's resource makes WCAG more digestible.

a11ycalendar.kaseybon.com

05.09.2025 16:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Announcement and recruitment flyer for a research study from the University of Memphis exploring speech language pathologistsโ€™ knowledge, perspectives, & clinical use of Gestalt Language processing theory.

Announcement and recruitment flyer for a research study from the University of Memphis exploring speech language pathologistsโ€™ knowledge, perspectives, & clinical use of Gestalt Language processing theory.

Hey #BskySpeechies & #SLPeeps- colleagues at the University of Memphis are exploring knowledge, perspectives, & clinical use of GLP with a survey. If you have 10 minutes, weโ€™d love to hear from you. Open internationally. Link to survey: memphis.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

05.09.2025 17:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Designing services for people who need help with numbers Low numeracy affects half of adults in the UK. Many live with the limitations of not understanding numbers and the impact that has on everyday life.

Many live with the limitations of not understanding numbers and the impact that has on everyday life. Laura Parker's Accessible Numbers project offers guidance on how to design services and write content for people who need help with numbers.

accessiblenumbers.com

04.09.2025 14:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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This is Leo. He is patiently waiting for this guy to throw the ball. Gonna be here a while. 13/10 (TT: twogoldenleos)

04.09.2025 16:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6773    ๐Ÿ” 864    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 120    ๐Ÿ“Œ 85

Hope to see you there tomorrow!
#UDL
#Inclusive #Edtech

03.09.2025 23:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy The science of misheard lyrics and the โ€œmondegreen,โ€ a misheard word or phrase that makes sense in your head, but is, in fact, entirely incorrect.

The science of misheard lyrics and the โ€œmondegreen,โ€ a misheard word or phrase that makes sense in your head, but is, in fact, entirely incorrect.

02.09.2025 21:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 200    ๐Ÿ” 27    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 35    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11
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Daily "aww" for today... ๐Ÿ˜Š

#dog #dogday #cat #catday #bluesky

01.09.2025 18:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5808    ๐Ÿ” 652    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 105    ๐Ÿ“Œ 44

"Can you imagine if you are a new and single teacher just trying to figure things out?"

It's called grace friends.
We could all afford to give our teachers a little extra dose of it at the beginning of the school year.

10.08.2025 19:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why do you appreciate unions?

Iโ€™ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits

31.08.2025 00:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21581    ๐Ÿ” 5989    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 750    ๐Ÿ“Œ 259

So excited about this!
#EduSky
#InclusiveEdTech
#Inclusion
#EdTech
#A11y
#ATchat

Join us- and pick a subgroup to dive deeper in your interest area!
@dtourudl.bsky.social
@ksuding.bsky.social
@mmatp.com

02.09.2025 03:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Right back at you!!

02.09.2025 02:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We used to post etymologies. We still do, but we used to, too.

29.08.2025 13:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1614    ๐Ÿ” 318    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 43    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25
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This is Thanos. He has figured out how to rest and babysit at the same time. Very impressive, very Montessori. 13/10 (TT: thanosthesaint)

28.08.2025 21:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25430    ๐Ÿ” 3343    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 583    ๐Ÿ“Œ 298

So excited about this 1000+ and growing community to learn and grow with!
Have you joined yet? #UDL & #AI are the new #Swift & #Kelsey of Learning ๐Ÿ˜‰
A march made in heaven ๐Ÿ’
#EduSky
#Inclusion
#Edtech

27.08.2025 01:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Nineteenth Amendment Yesterday, I intended to write about the Nineteenth Amendment prohibiting states from denying women the right to vote because today is the anniversary of the amendmentโ€™s certification in 1920.

A video about the Nineteenth Amendment.

26.08.2025 19:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1008    ๐Ÿ” 341    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28    ๐Ÿ“Œ 39
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Accessible Social Accessible Social is a free resource and education hub that helps marketers and content creators learn about accessibility and how it relates to social media.

Alexa Heinrich's Accessible Social is a free resource for digital marketers, communication professionals, content creators, everyday social media users, and anyone who wants to learn how to make their content accessible for people with disabilities.

www.accessible-social.com

24.08.2025 01:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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22.08.2025 02:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Educators pose in front of the UDL-Con 2025 step-and-repeat banner.

Educators pose in front of the UDL-Con 2025 step-and-repeat banner.

CASTโ€™s Sam Johnston speaks on stage at UDL-Con 2025.

CASTโ€™s Sam Johnston speaks on stage at UDL-Con 2025.

Zach and Jose smile for a photo at UDL-Con 2025.

Zach and Jose smile for a photo at UDL-Con 2025.

Wide shot of the full ballroom at UDL-Con 2025.

Wide shot of the full ballroom at UDL-Con 2025.

Throwback to #UDLcon2025 โ€” where innovation met heart, stories met laughter, and every handshake felt like the start of something big.

Can we do it again already?

#UDL #UDLcon

14.08.2025 15:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization How do you write text that conveys the whole meaning of a visualization? You probably canโ€™t. But that doesnโ€™t mean that you shouldnโ€™t try

Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart.

medium.com/nightingale/...

14.08.2025 17:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 38    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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03.08.2025 14:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
"You donโ€™t have to know everything. You donโ€™t have to be perfect. Just show up, give it your all and love those kids every single day. Focus on the small wins, be kind to yourself and understand that your students adore you. You ARE enough!!" โ€”Educator George Mills

"You donโ€™t have to know everything. You donโ€™t have to be perfect. Just show up, give it your all and love those kids every single day. Focus on the small wins, be kind to yourself and understand that your students adore you. You ARE enough!!" โ€”Educator George Mills

You are enough โ€“ every single day you show up.

#EduSky

03.08.2025 14:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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