In this interactive session, participants, whether instructors, administrators, or content developers, will learn the basic principles of SLICK from TMU, which was adapted from Helen Wilson’s SCULPT framework.
- Introduce some statistics to participants about people who identify with disabilities
- Brief overview of SCULPT and SLICK origins
- How to apply the principles of SLICK in everyday use
- Demonstrate to participants how a screen reader would read a document, slide, H5P, or video CC
- Discuss in a group what SLICK principle they would like to start implementing and why they chose it to begin, i.e., importance.
- In a brainstorming session with other members, use the time-blocking handout to make a feasible action plan, and you can stick with it to start implementing the SLICK framework in your educational resources.
- Share their plan and call to action with other members and gain insight and ideas from other group members on applying the principles of SLICK.
As the facilitator of this interactive session, I will use the objectives mentioned above to introduce the need to make all created resources digitally accessible, using statistics from the Canadian Census and WHO presently and in the future. I will briefly introduce the SCULPT framework and go more in-depth with the principles of SLICK depending on my audiences’ profession, i.e., instructor, admin, or developer. If a mix, I can talk about all of them briefly. I will also demonstrate with recordings a screen reader reading text with and without the SLICK principles to see the difference. After going in more depth with the principles of SLICK, I will ask participants to brainstorm in a group and discuss how they could make their content more accessible using the principles in this session. Then, as a group, they will complete their plan using a weekly time-blocking handout and discuss it.
