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Before I started to work in the eLearning team here at the University I thought I knew what accessibility meant – and who it was for. I thought accessibility was special provisions for a few people. Think large text and audio description. How wrong I was!
Working in the eLearning…
My story started when I was 17. On summer break, getting ready to finish my A levels to then go off to university. A bit of a weird summer for me – started great with my first proper attendance at Glastonbury, this was the first of many – but that…
Over the last year working for the eLearning team at the University of Aberdeen I’ve learnt how I can make digital content and learning material accessible for myself. When I joined the team, I had been a student for three years and wasn’t aware that some of…
Digital accessibility has been a widely publicised issue since I first started at university. Even most students without any additional learning needs should be aware of the importance of, for example, having alternative text in place for images and closed captions for videos – because those things…
The Covid-19 pandemic brought about many changes in people’s lives. For Professor Ele Belfiore it brought to a head issues which she had wondered about since childhood – and a late diagnosis of ADHD.
Four years on from the start of lockdown and as part of National Neurodiversity Celebration Week…
I’m Lucy, and this is my 6th year working in the Sir Duncan Rice Library. I really enjoy all aspects of my job, as I’m quite a creative person, and like to find things out and help people. This has been a dream job since I was very young; coincidentally,…
“Can you turn right here? No, the other right.”
“Helen, I’m not sure you meant foot biases in this paper about vegetarian food.”
“Do you realise you’ve spelled lecturer wrong in your email signature?”
“Errr, people are meant to re-sit exams, not resist them.”
These – among many…
It’s LGBTQ+ History Month! To celebrate members of the LGBTQ+ Staff and Postgraduate Network have come together to share their recommendations for LGBTQ+ entertainment. Whether you’re looking to expand your reading list, find a new podcast or want something to binge on Netflix this weekend. Why not check out what…
At the University of Aberdeen, we have a wide range of resources available to students related to the field of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). The team from the library have prepared reading lists of available material relating to neurodiversity, mental health, LGBTQ+ and decolonisation, which we have collated into…
The world is becoming more unequal. Social injustices continue at pace often in association with personal characteristics such as race, gender, sexuality, ableness, religion, class and more. We can see the social injustices in the unlawful killings of Black people in the USA, the rise of Islamophobia,…
