[community] accessible LMS and VR - Looking for some help

Tue Jan 7 21:59:08 UTC 2020

This is brilliant. I've long hoped someone would champion Virtual Reality
technology as a learning tool. - also include games!  See below!!

Unfortunately, this site is not accessible to me, and so many others, as it
is all in "traditional written form" - both writing and averagarian-reading
are barriers. Libraries have always been for others, as well; certainly
never for me. NO ONE, unless there is NO OTHER WAY, should/will stoop to the
dishonoring and disabling labels others casually hand out. Such ugliness
shows up as, "Disabled" - or "Gosh, you are so lucky, you can go around back
where they care for "accessibility people." WITH TECHNOLOGY, there is NO
excuse for having two separate categories of people - NONE except for profit
trumping human rights and human dignity.and eugenics and status quo trumping
the same. Teachers, researchers, you name it.those who continue to use and
allow those ugly tags are enablers of our "American cast system." 

Many of us who are "outside" are well-educated and intelligent people...and
some, like me, have deep roots in independent and private school
education... but, barriers prevent our participation on this "accessibility
site." It is too exhausting and time consuming to fight up-hill. It is also
overwhelming to have all the visual clutter of such communications. Coming
from the special background that I have, I know it is very common among
educators to communicate with each other - but not with the outside world.
As Melinda Gates wrote (audible book!) - we are ALL hardwired to create
barriers for others, even when we are sure we aren't. 

Look for those who this site is excluding and figure out how to change and
include. An accessibility site must showcase Kat Holmes and August de los
Reyes' "Inclusive Design Redesigned." Anything less isn't inclusive design.
I've spent 3 years working on ideas and systems for their IDR to open doors
for those with ADHD, Dyslexia and beyond.  

The "experts" are not the geeks - they are simply engineers; the "experts"
are not the educators - they are also engineers, strategists, and cheer
leaders, with bits of therapist thrown in. The only "EXPERTS" are those who
have been designed out - or who have never been designed in. They own the
deep verticle expertise and experience, but they are never paid or
celebrated for their expertise - as all others are for theirs. They know
what is needed.

We are still outside waiting in the hopes of someday having a wide door
welcome us in - with our modalities. 

Games! - EXCELLENT for getting across all kinds of issues! 

A Kid In A Refugee Camp Thought Video Games Fell From Heaven. Now He Makes
Them 

He didn't tell anyone at first, but in that moment he knew in his heart that
he wanted to learn to code, he says. More than a decade later, Mayen is
garnering international recognition from Facebook and the global gaming
community for an innovative video game that brings players into the life of
a refugee. The latest version of the game - called "Salaam," which means
"peace" in Arabic - will be released on Thursday.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/12/11/786740227/a-kid-in-a-re
fugee-camp-thought-video-games-fell-from-heaven-now-he-makes-them

I just happened to open this email.I've opened others, but couldn't deal
with the modality. I hope you have heard me and will take it to heart.

Sally 

-----Original Message-----
From: community [mailto:community-bounces at lists.idrc.ocadu.ca] On Behalf Of
Jutta Treviranus
Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 1:00 PM
To: pina.dintino at gmail.com
Cc: community at lists.idrc.ocadu.ca
Subject: Re: [community] accessible LMS and VR - Looking for some help

Hi Pina,

Happy New Year!

This is the focus and expertise of two consortia we are engaged in: XRAccess
( <https://www.xraccess.org/> https://www.xraccess.org/) and XRInclusion (
<https://xrinclusion.org/> https://xrinclusion.org/). 

We worked on a similar idea during the first wave of VR in 1994-95. 

Jutta

> On Jan 7, 2020, at 3:21 PM,  <mailto:pina.dintino at gmail.com>
pina.dintino at gmail.com wrote:

> 

> Hello everyone, Happy New Year to all and yes I agree with Jutta 

> sounds like it is going to be a busy and exciting one.

> 

> A colleague of mine at the federal government is looking for some help  

> on the topic of accessible LMS and VR and I thought who better to 

> reach out to for expertise. Below is a copy of his  request. If anyone 

> can help, please let me know. P.S.: I'd also like to know more about this
myself.

> 

> "I will be joining conversations about the possibility of using 

> Virtual Reality technology as a learning tool to explore barriers and 

> accessibility (just an example for context: it could be the user 

> navigates an airport and encounters barriers and has to determine what 

> would remove the barrier - the user might do the experience with a 

> visual, hearing, mobility, intellectual etc. impairment).  The focus 

> would be on awareness of barriers and how to remove them rather than 

> suggesting the experience at all gives a sense of what it is like to
experience a particular impairment.

> 

> 

> 

> Are you aware of any resources or individual who has expertise on 

> accessibility issues with VR itself as a tool? I don't know if audio 

> and other sensory overlays would provide a valuable experience for 

> someone with visual impairments, etc.  Let me know if you are aware of any
resources."

> 

> Sincerely,

> 

> Pina

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> Pina D'Intino, MDes, PMP, CPACC

> 

> Business Transformation, Accessibility Strategist and Consultant

> 

> Tel: 416.948.3348

> 

> E-mail:  < <mailto:pina at aequumaccess.com> mailto:pina at aequumaccess.com>
<mailto:pina at aequumaccess.com> pina at aequumaccess.com

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> Also seek me out at:  < <mailto:Pina at Aequumaccess.com>
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>  "_It is possible.  Accessibility makes  good business sense.

> 

> Aequum is proud to  be an organizational  sponsor of IAAP.

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>> < <http://www.accessibilityassociation.org/>
http://www.accessibilityassociation.org/>

>  <http://www.accessibilityassociation.org>
www.accessibilityassociation.org

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