As part of H810 I have been asked to write a piece about my previous experience of disability awareness training. This will be a short piece as I have never taken any disability awareness training! It's not that I have missed opportunities it's just that so far in my working life the opportunity has never arose. The only disability awareness training has been through research undertaken by my own initiative on the web, starting with organisations like W3C for online content accessibility. I was aware of this gap in my knowledge base and was one of my reasons for taking H810 as part of my MA ODE.
This question does make me wonder why disability awareness training is something that has never been available to me. Before I worked in education I worked for a commercial internet service provider building websites for SMEs and accessibility was at the bottom of their list of priorities. Even their own company website was inaccessible - very much style over substance. I am not surprised that I didn't receive any there, but as a national company there should really have been something. In my current employment there is at least a policy of inclusion but much more could be done.
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