{"id":5383,"date":"2025-03-08T14:04:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T22:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci136\/?p=5383"},"modified":"2025-03-13T23:35:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T06:35:53","slug":"charlie-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci136\/2025\/03\/08\/charlie-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"searchHighlight\">Charlie<\/span> <span class=\"searchHighlight\">Watson<\/span> manages the University of Victoria\u2019s <a title=\"https:\/\/www.uvic.ca\/accessible-learning\/services\/adaptive-technology\/index.php\" contenteditable=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uvic.ca\/accessible-learning\/services\/adaptive-technology\/index.php\">Adaptive Technology Program<\/a>. As an adaptive technologist, he supports students to find and use assistive and adaptive technology in their studies. He also works with instructors and staff to improve the physical and digital accessibility of the university. He started in this sort of work a decade ago as a STEM tutor for students with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Video and slides are copyrighted using <a title=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\" contenteditable=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons <\/a><a title=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\" contenteditable=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">Attribution-<\/a><a title=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\" contenteditable=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">ShareAlike<\/a><a title=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\" contenteditable=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\"> 4.0 <\/a><a title=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\" contenteditable=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">International License<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Links (from the resources slide):<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvic.ca\/accessible-learning\/services\/adaptive-technology\/index.php\">CAL\u2019s adaptive technology program<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahead.ie\/Discover-your-AT\">Discover Your Assistive Technology<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahead.ie\/The-AT-Hive\">the AT Hive<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/webaim.org\/\">Web Accessibility in Mind<\/a> (WebAIM)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/make-your-word-documents-accessible-to-people-with-disabilities-d9bf3683-87ac-47ea-b91a-78dcacb3c66d\">Microsoft\u2019s best practices for Word documents<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/webaim.org\/intro\/\">WebAIM\u2019s principles of accessible design<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.adobe.com\/en\/publish\/2022\/11\/29\/the-complete-checklist-to-pdf-accessibility\">Adobe\u2019s PDF accessibility checklist<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/home\/accessible-government\/toolkit\/documents\/adobe-pdf\">BC government\u2019s accessible PDF guide<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/Techniques\/\">Web Accessibility Initiative\u2019s PDF techniques<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wave.webaim.org\/\">WAVE web accessibility checker<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-12\/Do%20No%20Harm%20Guide%20Centering%20Accessibility%20in%20Data%20Visualization.pdf\">Do No Harm Guide: Centering Accessibility in Data Visualization (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/echo360.ca\/media\/5cc77b21-6dce-49de-a8eb-3f553ff2c9ee\/public?autoplay=false&amp;automute=false\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Second video with colleagues from the Centre for Accessible Learning introducing Academic Access (Rights and Resources)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/echo360.ca\/media\/44d3b5b1-5374-4b7c-ab71-26864fc74cee\/public?autoplay=false&amp;automute=false\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Watson manages the University of Victoria\u2019s Adaptive Technology Program. As an adaptive technologist, he supports students to find and use assistive and adaptive technology in their studies. He also works with instructors and staff to improve the physical and&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci136\/2025\/03\/08\/charlie-watson\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci136\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci136\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci136\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci136\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci136\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci136\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5396,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci136\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions\/5396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci136\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci136\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci136\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci136\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}