Seale identifies six potential areas for conflict or contradiction within an organisation or activity system. What potential contradictions exist in your organisation and why?
Subject and Tools - Formal external rules such as guidelines and legislation are unclear, evaluation and repair tools are misunderstood. There is also a general technophobia (for want of a better word) regarding the publishing software for online content in general.
Subject and Rules - Insufficient motivation provided by formal internal rules such as accessibility policy for example no requirement or deadline for compliance.
Subject and Object - The need provision of elearning is an issue in itself. Becasue accessibility was not built in to elearning implementation from the outset this now creates an additional conflict. There is also a general lack of knowledge and understanding regarding elearning and accessibility amongst subjects.
Subject/Community and Division of Labour - It is unclear to the subject/community who has responsibility for ensuring accessibility, as well as having little motivation to find out or make changes.
How helpful is it to conceptualise the development of accessibility within your organisation as an activity system? Do you think that Figure 12.1 on page 165 would be useful as a trigger for discussion within your organisation? Would it enable you and your colleagues to identify what changes or developments are needed and why they are needed?
The figure 12.1 is quite useful for identifying and separating different areas of conflict. This can break down the issues into more manageable chunks and help to identify potential resolutions.
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