Accessibility – Digital Writing and Research Lab

Discuss This!: Structuring Reading Discussions through Collaborative Annotations

March 6, 2024 No Comments

A DWRL Practicum Online Module by Abby Burns. As a hard-of-hearing instructor who struggles intermittently with listening fatigue, there are days when keeping up with class discussion eats away at all of my energy (or requires more energy than I have), diminishing my capacity to respond in real time. One tool I have come stand by for negotiating this problem is collaborative annotation platforms like Perusall or Hypothes.is. These platforms allow students to connect on the (digital) margins of a shared PDF, taking collaborative notes directly on assigned readings.

Workshop Recap: Closed Captioning in YouTube

September 16, 2020 No Comments

In this workshop, the DWRL staff uploaded instructional videos to YouTube. The staff then proceeded to generate/edit closed captions for these videos. YouTube will automatically

Lesson Plan: Making Documents Accessible for Screen Reader Software

March 9, 2018 No Comments

In an earlier blog post, the DWRL offered various free resources and tips for creating visual content that is accessible to people with visual impairments.

Accessible Data Visualizations

January 3, 2018 No Comments

Are you reading this blog post from computer screen or an screen reader? Did you need to adjust the font or text size, screen brightness,

Lesson Plan: Visualizing Sound by Captioning Nonspeech Sounds

December 11, 2017 No Comments

Although closed-captioning is usually thought of in terms of accessibility, it also highlights the larger rhetorical significance of sound—a significance which is most notably taken

Lesson Plan: Viewing>writing>listening Pedagogical Versions of Access

December 4, 2017 No Comments

Existentially, this lesson plan is about challenging student conceptions of information dissemination and questioning notions of universality embedded in web narratives of access. We like

Tinkering With Pedagogy: Experimenting With Technology at the DWRL

November 20, 2017 No Comments

At the start of last academic year, the Digital Writing and Research Lab assigned two research imperatives: data visualization and wearable technology. While data visualization

Accessibility Project Update: Mapping Narratives of Access

March 7, 2017 No Comments

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Ethical Design and Time Well Spent

February 20, 2017 No Comments

The amount of time we spend engaged with our digital devices, especially our smart phones, doesn’t necessarily make us feel more empowered. The organization Time

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Invisible Knowledge

February 1, 2017 No Comments

Since you’re reading this online publication, I imagine that you, like me, leave hundreds of digital traces every day. A lot of these traces are

Clip art showing people with different access needs in sillhouette. Left to right: a person on crutches, a person in a wheelchair, a person with a cane, a person pushing a pram

Universal Design for Learning: What is it and why should you care?

November 17, 2016 No Comments

At the end of this past summer, I was invited to address instructors in the University of Texas‘ Department of Rhetoric & Writing (DRW) on

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Food and Drink: A Photo Essay

October 3, 2016 No Comments

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