Accessibility Toolkit
In late 2023, I was at a workshop with other learning designers, and we were discussing accessibility. Of our group of six professionals, only two of us felt confident we knew where to start. So I wrote an introductory guide.
In late 2023, I was at a workshop with other learning designers, and we were discussing accessibility. Of our group of six professionals, only two of us felt confident we knew where to start.
That seemed like a bad thing to me, and so I talked with some of the committee and offered to make a beginner’s guide, giving people a way to get started.
It took me about a year, because despite some initial interest in helping with it, somehow I ended up working mostly on my own. I’m still glad I had that initial interest, as I don’t think I’d have made a real start without it!
But it’s finished, and available from the NZATD website under a Creative Commons licence (Smith, 2025).
I have had some lovely feedback about it, at this week’s NZATD Tahu Ignite conference, from people who are using it in their own organisations, and I’m thrilled.