Barriers cluster heavily around visual-only communication and inaccessible document formats — both of which are avoidable with advance planning rather than individual adaptation after the fact.
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Setting |
What it looks like |
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Lectures |
Visual-only referencing — 'as you can see here' — without any accompanying verbal description. |
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Materials |
Scanned, image-only PDFs that a screen reader cannot process at all. |
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Slides / diagrams |
Undescribed diagrams, charts, or images that carry information conveyed nowhere else. |
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Digital platforms |
Inaccessible course pages, forms, or unlabelled images online. |
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Assessment |
Exam papers distributed as locked or image-only formats. |
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Physical navigation |
Unfamiliar or changing room layouts without notice. |
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