Lilian Joy

Preparing to teach vision-impaired students As we head towards the start of semester, it’s a good time to prepare for our students. There will be lecturers new to teaching students who are vision-impaired (VI). This blog post aims to r…

Some tips on preparing to teach our VI students at York. Our lecturers and students have provided insights that have helped us to develop our practice further!

Reflections on DigAcc25 The digital accessibility conference, DigAcc25, that took place in June 2025 continues to resonate with me. This blog post is a delayed reflection on the event; by writing about it, it’s also an op…

Reflections on DigAcc25
blogs.york.ac.uk/digital-acce... #DigAcc25

Image alt text: Stand with goodies and DigAcc25 iced buns.

All set up for #DigAcc25 at UoY

Our @uoydigacc.bsky.social unit are running a workshop on supporting hearing impaired students on 11 June. UoY staff are encouraged to sign up! forms.gle/ozuxgjHugMQa...

Creating tactile graphics for VI students – part 3 Tactile resources are useful to supplement the digital versions of resources, enabling a student to use multiple senses to understand the data, patterns and connections. In Part 1 of our Tactile Gr…

Our latest blog post is out and it's the latest in our ongoing series about the challenges of creating tactile graphic resources. @xlearn.bsky.social takes an in depth look at at tactile heat maps, issues around narration and gets creative in making resources: blogs.york.ac.uk/digital-acce...

Promotional graphic featuring a person in a wheelchair with arms raised, appearing to be speaking or expressing joy. The text reads: "'Thank you for providing this space and allow me to feel heard.' Below this, there is an invitation to participate in the survey: 'Fill out the Annual Disabled Students Survey." There is a Disabled Students UK logo in the top right corner

Hear from one student who took part in the Annual Disabled Student Survey.

Your voice matters! Join us in filling out the Annual Disabled Students Survey 2025 and help create a more inclusive environment 👇

Link to the survey - app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/dsuk-resea...

#DisabledStudents

Photo shows Kay, Sally and Glenn in front of the title slide for the Authentic Assessment workshop.

Thrilled to meet @profsallybrown.bsky.social and @kaysambell.bsky.social at @UniofYork. Thanks to @glennhurst.bsky.social for organising! #AuthenticAssessment

Thank you, Martin. I hope more stuff like this comes out of the woodwork so we can all learn how to do this work better!

@mahabali.bsky.social As discussed, the blog post on creating tactile graphics to support VI STEM students.

Finally finished our first blog post on Creating tactile graphics for visually impaired students. Feedback welcome! #VI #blind #accessibility blogs.york.ac.uk/digital-acce...

Will be writing up a blog post on our similar experience soon so will ping you when it's ready.

Everyone's been talking a lot about generative AI - so we did too. Our latest blog post considers the accessibility implications around the wider use and reliance on AI tools: blogs.york.ac.uk/digital-acce...

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Book now for the first #AmplifyFE webinar of 2025! Join Christophe Mallet from BodySwaps & Colin Smith from Cornwall College for 'The Do's and Don'ts of Immersive
Learning' on Friday 31January from 12-12:30. Free to book, all welcome! https://buff.ly/4iswdwo #FurtherEducation #LoveFE #ALTc #EduSky

Future Teacher: Reflected We are re-running all our topics for a 3rd time under the banner of Future Teacher Reflected! Join us for our next session and/or view the previous recordings and resources.

January's Future Teacher session (Thurs 30th Jan, 1300-1400 GMT) explores ways of using technology to enhance learner participation and engagement. From chatting with an AI mentor/critic to successful use of discussion boards (yes, they are still a thing). Register now for free bit.ly/ft30ukpage.

All ready for our #WRLTF Unconference today at Uni of York Kings Manor campus.

I'm sure the community will still be here when you return!

Future Teacher: Reflected We are re-running all our topics for a 3rd time under the banner of Future Teacher Reflected! Join us for our next session and/or view the previous recordings and resources.

@bsky.app Join this month's #futureteacher webinar on 28th November, details here xot.futureteacher.eu/play.php?tem... #edtech #altc