{"id":6327,"date":"2019-10-31T15:29:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T15:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/?p=6327"},"modified":"2019-10-31T15:29:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T15:29:20","slug":"office-for-students-report-beyond-the-bare-minimum-are-universities-and-colleges-doing-enough-for-disabled-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2019\/10\/office-for-students-report-beyond-the-bare-minimum-are-universities-and-colleges-doing-enough-for-disabled-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Office For Students report: &#8220;Beyond the bare minimum: Are universities and colleges doing enough for disabled students?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received an email from Policy Connect about a recently published report by the Office for Students who reviewed Disability Support in UK HEIs. Here&#8217;s what they said.<\/p>\n<p><em>The review has produced valuable evidence on the state of digital accessibility in HE &#8211; from accessibility statements, to documents on VLEs, to lecture capture captioning. It also recommends that digital accessibility be adopted a key indicator against which the sector will be judged.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The report is over 150 pages and digital accessibility is raised in several sections. Policy Connect will produce a digest of the key parts of the report but for now I\u2019d recommend ctrl + F-ing for \u2018digital\u2019 \u2018web\u2019 and \u2018caption\u2019 to see some highlights.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That report again:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/officeforstudents.org.uk\/publications\/beyond-the-bare-minimum-are-universities-and-colleges-doing-enough-for-disabled-students\/\">Beyond the bare minimum: Are universities and colleges doing enough for disabled students?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keen-eyed readers may remember Policy Connect published a report by the &#8220;All-Party Parliamentary Group for Assistive Technology&#8221; about accessibility and VLEs (such as WebLearn and Canvas)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.policyconnect.org.uk\/appgat\/research\/accessible-vles-making-most-new-regulations\">Accessible VLEs &#8211; making the most of the new regulations<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received an email from Policy Connect about a recently published report by the Office for Students who reviewed Disability Support in UK HEIs. Here&#8217;s what they said. The review has produced valuable evidence on the state of digital &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2019\/10\/office-for-students-report-beyond-the-bare-minimum-are-universities-and-colleges-doing-enough-for-disabled-students\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","category-e-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6328,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6327\/revisions\/6328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}