Browsing by Subject "accessibility"

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    Education for All Week 3 - Job's story
    (2018-06-01) Nseibo, Job
    In this video, Nseibo Job Kofi discusses his experiences with education as a child growing up with polio meningitis in Ghana. He discusses how the attitudes of his family affected the kinds of care he was able to access, and how his educational achievements led to changes in how he was perceived by his family. He discusses his experience with inaccessible higher education institutions, and ends with asserting that children with disabilities should remain in mainstream education where learning environments can be made more accessible with sufficient planning and forethought.
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    Exploring the challenges and implications of designing, developing and implementing accessible e-government services
    (2022) Abdurahman, Saleem; Kabanda, Salah
    E-Government is perceived to be a vehicle for transforming how governments deliver public services and interact with each other and with their citizens as well as businesses. Governments present their services via their online websites. It is therefore paramount that e-Government services are accessible and well-designed to allow all those who use the services the ability to use them. Yet, accessibility of e-Government websites continues to remain a challenge to people with disability (PWDs) worldwide, and more so in low to middle income countries where the majority of PWDs reside. This dissertation examines the challenges e-Government designers and developers face when designing and implementing accessible e-Government services with the key purpose of understanding how these challenges affect their current practices of designing and implementing accessible e-Government services. The study employed qualitative techniques, specifically qualitative semi-structured interviews to collect primary data from government employees working as developers, designers, business analysts, and the management team. For triangulation purposes, secondary data from South African government websites was collected to identify and understand how government is incorporating accessibility into its policies and legislatures. The data was analysed using a thematic analysis. The findings present six challenges: legacy and bespoke systems, human and financial resources, stakeholder awareness of accessibility, monitoring of accessibility, collaboration in prioritising of accessibility and management support. All of which influence the design and implementation of accessible e-Government services. Furthermore, these findings explain how these challenges affect the current practices of designing and implementing accessible eGovernment services. Identified common practices include championing accessibility, adoption of an omni channel approach as well as digital learning and awareness, development of inhouse guidelines and best practices as well as support for developing assistive technologies. The study discusses the implications of these findings for future studies.
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    How to be a superhero: stories of creating a culture of inclusion through theatre
    (2021) Jaskolski, Kaitlin Orlena-Kearns; Baxter, Veronica
    This thesis investigates the use of Inclusive theatre to disengage the ‘disabled'/ ‘non-disabled' binary for transformation to inclusive cultures. The research extends existing scholarship in Inclusive and applied theatre practices by documenting selected case studies in west and southern Africa. A sociocultural lens defines disability as a social construct, problematizing community reactions, systemic oppression and societal barriers as the disabling force rather than any physical or cognitive impairment. A series of participatory action research projects explore inclusion through an applied theatre praxis and critical/performance ethnography. Progressive pedagogy informs the methods, ethics, and values of each cross-cultural inclusive project. Participants with neurodivergent, or atypical (dis)abilities are contextualized as heroes within the metaphoric framework of the hero's journey as popularized by Joseph Campbell. Campbell's stages are juxtaposed with project workshops and performances to emphasize the universal application of inclusion, and the educational power of storytelling. The primary journey follows the development of Nigeria's premier inclusive theatre company; from drama-as-therapy beginnings to their professional performance of How to be a Superhero: A Guide to Saving the World. Supplementary projects with Hijinx Theatre in Lesotho and the Oasis Association in South Africa provide stories of igniting hidden talents and overcoming the obstacles that create barriers to inclusion in both the arts and society. An enabled dramaturgy details accessibility, authenticity, engagement, transformation, and aesthetics to debate the allies/enemies of inclusive theatre. Each project reveals the boons of adapting practices through considerations of accessibility, accommodations, and modifications. The culminating performances of each project provide evidence that storytelling, building relationships, transforming and engaging participants and audiences through theatre forges empathy, increases representation, and encourages visibility. Psychologist Philip Zimbardo argues that “Heroism can be learned, can be taught, can be modeled, and can be a quality of being to which we all should aspire.” (2011). This research, inspired by Campbell and Zimbardo, argues that inclusion, like heroism, can be learned, taught and modeled through theatre to create a culture of inclusion.
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    The microstructure of Isichazamazwi SesiNdebele
    (Stellenbosch University, 2009) Maphosa, Mandlenkosi; Nkomo, Dion
    This article analyses the microstructure of Isichazamazwi SesiNdebele. The analysis takes place on two levels: the level of availability of information and the level of accessibility of the available information to dictionary users. Data derived from two outreach exercises carried out to ascertain users' perspectives on the dictionary and their competence in using the dictionary is also scrutinised while the notion of user-friendliness and the general principles of dictionary-making form the framework within which the analysis is done.