User Needs
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Along with education providers we aim to help learners become confident, motivated and achieve independence. We know that technology can play a crucial role in helping people with diverse needs to live, learn and work independently.
Embed accessible practices
JISC TechDis works at a strategic level with agencies and professional bodies across the UK in order to help them embed sustainable and accessible practices for the benefit of all their users and stakeholders.
Five core principles
JISC Techdis promotes five core principles that support an inclusive and accessible approach to technology:
- Understanding the needs of users and recognising how disabilities affect the way individuals engage with traditional resources and influence their experiences;
- Creating and delivering inclusive experiences; a skill that depends as much on a knowledge of accessible resources as it does on a knowledge of accessible delivery;
- The ability to use a variety of tools and techniques (technological and non-technological) as well as the knowledge of how to use and evaluate them in ways that maximise accessibility;
- Being able to create inclusive assessments using a variety of methods that are flexible enough to measure understanding and progression effectively;
- Understanding that accessible practice is a vital element of any organisation’s practice which ultimately benefits all its users.
