Post on 23-Dec-2014
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Unlocking Potential
OASES: Online Accessibility Self Evaluation Service - a web-based tool for education
institutions to self-assess the accessibility of their practice
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Dr Simon Ball
JISC TechDis
simon@techdis.ac.uk
Unlocking Potential
JISC TechDiswww.techdis.ac.uk
• Funded to increase accessibility and inclusion through technology in UK post-compulsory education.
• Work in many areas from guidance for teachers on using MS Word more accessibly, or using podcasts or video; to guidance for university managers on policy and strategy for inclusion.
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Initial Research
• Feedback from our initial research showed that although there are many ‘pockets’ of good inclusive, accessible practice with technology in UK education, they often do not have wider influence on policy and practice.
• Accessibility is still seen as a ‘specialist’ area – not something that everybody has responsibility for.
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Roles
• Roles are key.• Role-specific information is needed to help
people understand how accessibility applies to them.
• Then the roles need to come together to ‘join-up’ the accessibility practice to inform policy.
• But the question remained…How do we get people interested in playing their part?
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Benchmarking
• From our research it seemed that one thing usually guaranteed to encourage participation is competition – especially if you remove the possibility of ‘losing’.
• We wanted to enable people to judge their own performance on accessibility, in private, anonymously, against their peers.
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The Solution: OASES
• Online Accessibility Self Evaluation Service• Rationale – Accessibility Maturity Model.• Role selection and introduction to specific issues.• Survey including links to further information.• Presentation of results in context – benchmarking.• Direction of further work including collaboration
with other roles in institution.
• Tested in live synchronous pilots with 98 institutions.
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OASES Demo
• Hopefully I will be able to take you through the resource at www.techdis.ac.uk/getOASES
• Failing this, I have some screen shots I can use on the following slides….
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