Interactive Session
Interactive Session
A11y to the Rescue: A Villainous Escape Room
A11y to the Rescue: A Villainous Escape Room
Can you escape a fairy tale nightmare? Help A11y escape fairy tale villains while experiencing the same obstacles that disabled students encounter in digital spaces. Will you and your teammates successfully solve the escape room puzzles and return to reality, or will you end up as the old hag’s breakfast?
Learning Designer
Collaborate with educators to design accessible and active digital learning environments that accommodate learner variability.
Empowering Leader
Support educators in using technology to advance learning that meets the diverse learning, cultural, and social-emotional needs of individual students.
Leader
Advocate for equitable access to educational technology, digital content and learning opportunities to meet the diverse needs of all students.
The purpose of this presentation is to bring better awareness and understanding to individuals involved in student success of the importance of digital accessibility. In participating in this session, individuals will gain empathy and tangibly experience what happens when digital accessibility is not considered.
Educators are more aware of the importance of digital accessibility. Most do not realize the digital barriers that disabled students still encounter. Through the escape room, educators reconcile with the experiences of their students, which brings more empathy and awareness to the importance of always generating accessible course content.
By participating in this interactive session, participants will:
Review who is impacted by digital accessibility
Appraise why all digital course content must meet accessibility standards
Acquire accessibility resources
Solve a digital accessibility escape room
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