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Vicki Haddix @vickibostonslp.bsky.social · 19d

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

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · Sep 11

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.")

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · Sep 10

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...

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...

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SpedTechMia @techmia.bsky.social · Sep 10

Why I never wanted to be a #Teacher 🙈
Why the #CITESFramework is NOT another initiative 🚫
Finding my space in #HoH 🦻
How my cousin changed the course of my life 😇
Please take a listen 💚

#InclusiveTech #UDL #EdTech #EduSky #Podcast
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@dtourudl.bsky.social
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CAST @cast-udl.bsky.social · Sep 9

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...

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CAST @cast-udl.bsky.social · Sep 9

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...

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SpedTechMia @techmia.bsky.social · Sep 7

Very informative on #AI #EduSky

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Sep 7

In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV...

"the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"

But what iseducation? Embodied and enactive cognitive sciences remind us that knowledge is not something discrete that an individual possesses and passes down but an inherently dynamic and evolving endeavour that develops in the process of embodied, curious and engaged interaction through dialogue. The pinnacle of cognition, particularly ‘human knowing’, is inextricably interwoven with interactions we engage in

with each other and the physical, cultural and social world we inhabit, ‘so much so that individuals are not thinkable outside of their interactions and embeddedness in their (social) world’ (De Jaegher, 2019). Dialogic models of knowledge and education emphasize that interactions between a student and teacher and/or peer provide ‘scaffolding’ for how that child understands the world. The always in flux, active and continually transforming nature of human cognition necessitates that education be fundamentally an ongoing activity. Far from the reductionist view whereby ‘formal knowledge’ can be packaged and acquired from an LLM, the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care and humility are fostered and mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · Sep 7

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

Vox Product Accessibility Guidelines

As journalists, advertisers, producers, and creators, content is at our core at Vox Media. We want to ensure that everyone—regardless of ability, situation, or context—can access it.

accessibility.voxmedia.com

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

13 Days of Accessibility

Review the 13 WCAG 2.1 guidelines that web designers and developers can follow to create accessible websites.

a11ycalendar.kaseybon.com

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Vicki Haddix @vickibostonslp.bsky.social · Sep 5

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, we’d love to hear from you. Open internationally. Link to survey: memphis.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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.

accessiblenumbers.com

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · Sep 4

This is Leo. He is patiently waiting for this guy to throw the ball. Gonna be here a while. 13/10 (TT: twogoldenleos)

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SpedTechMia @techmia.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

Kelli Suding, M.Ed., CPACC @ksuding.bsky.social · Sep 3

CAST Café monthly event is back tomorrow, 9/4!

Join us 4 a laid back convo 4 a Welcome Back & explore future topics. One of our fav times of the month 4pm ET. Free reg bit.ly/485eeZY @cast-udl.bsky.social @techmia.bsky.social @eyeonaxs.bsky.social @michelleeduc8.bsky.social #UDL #EduSky #UDLchat

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Sep 2

The science of misheard lyrics and the “mondegreen,” a misheard word or phrase that makes sense in your head, but is, in fact, entirely incorrect.

Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy

The science of misheard lyrics and the “mondegreen,” a misheard word or phrase that makes sense in your head, but is, in fact, entirely incorrect.

www.newyorker.com

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Mrs. D. room C-14 @thepolkadotteacher.bsky.social · Aug 10

"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.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Aug 31

Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

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

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SpedTechMia @techmia.bsky.social · Sep 2

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

Join us- and pick a subgroup to dive deeper in your interest area!
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CAST @cast-udl.bsky.social · Sep 2

We’re live tomorrow! CAST’s UDL & AI Learning Community launches Sept 2. Be part of the dialogue as educators, researchers, and tech specialists come together to explore AI’s role in accessibility and learner agency through UDL.

Sign up: community.cast.org

#CAST #UDL #AI

CAST UDL Community

Greetings to all passionate advocates of Universal Design for Learning (UDL)! Whether you're a seasoned educator, a researcher, or a curious newcomer, this space is crafted exclusively for you. Our co...

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SpedTechMia @techmia.bsky.social · Sep 2

Right back at you!!

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Aug 29

We used to post etymologies. We still do, but we used to, too.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · Aug 28

This is Thanos. He has figured out how to rest and babysit at the same time. Very impressive, very Montessori. 13/10 (TT: thanosthesaint)

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SpedTechMia @techmia.bsky.social · Aug 27

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 😉
A march made in heaven 💍
#EduSky
#Inclusion
#Edtech

CAST @cast-udl.bsky.social · Aug 26

We’re launching CAST’s UDL & AI Learning Community on Sept 2! A space to connect, share, and explore how AI can advance accessibility & learner agency through UDL.

Register today: community.cast.org

#CAST #UDL #AI

A human finger and an AI robotic finger reaching toward each other, symbolizing collaboration.

Text overlay reads: UDL & AI Community Launch. Subtext: Join educators, researchers, and tech specialists shaping the future of learning. Launches Sept 2.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · Aug 26

A video about the Nineteenth Amendment.

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 amendment’s certification in 1920.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · Aug 24

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

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.

www.accessible-social.com

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