ABSTRACT
Despite the powerful drivers for making e-learning accessible that have emerged over the last five to six years, it is still possible to read a report that condemns the perceived ‘inaccessibility’ of e-learning experiences that we are offering our students with disabilities. Proposed reasons and solutions for this inaccessibility offer an overly simplistic view of accessible e-learning in higher education:
Reason 1 Staff in higher education are prejudiced against disabled students and therefore happy to discriminate against them. Solution 1 We’ll threaten staff with punishment and guilty consciences so they won’t dare discriminate against disabled students.
