Read Seale Chapter 10 Managing accessible e-learning practice: the senior manager's perspective.
- Does the organisation where you work have an accessibility (or similar) policy? Use your alternative context, or think about the questions in general terms, if you don't work for a relevant organisation.
If your organisation does not have a policy, why do you think this might be?
Does your organisation have someone in a senior position whose job it could be to lead accessibility-related policies and initiatives?
In my school there is a senior manager but I do not think that he is the only person responsible for this decision. The ministry of education is the responsible for these matters in order to introduce policies and take initiatives.
Are senior management aware of accessibility issues and simply choosing to ignore them?
They are aware but as it is not only their responsibility to implement or bring it in practice they prefer to stay behind.
Has a decision been made that policies are not the right tool to use to try to change practice?
There was not even a discussion about this matter.
If so, how is your organisation communicating to staff any desire or intention relating to accessibility?
This question does not apply to my context at the moment.
- How might you improve on accessibility-related policies that exist in your organisation?
They do not exist.
If none exist, what might you include in any new accessibility-related policy within an organisation?
Define the scope of the policy, delineate a specific and official technical standard, indicate whether compliance is required, indicate a timeline or deadline for compliance, define a system for evaluating or monitoring compliance and indicate any consequences for failure to comply with policy (Seale, 2006).
Does your organisation have other policies that should refer to accessibility?
If so, do they refer to it? If not, in what ways should they refer to it?
It has other policies but they are not interconnected with accessibility!
- Who are the key people who have a role in managing accessibility in your organisation?
Staff of the school, IT technologists, senior managers, specialist staff who is responsible for extra lessons for students and also for disabled students.
What helps or hinders them working together on accessibility-related issues?
They can work together if they wish to do so and the senior manager will always support them but the fact that there is no official policy hinders them and leave them back.
Reference:
Seale, J. (2006) E-Learning and Disability in Higher Education: Accessibility Research and Practice, Abingdon, Routledge;