Yes, this. I saw a piece with the tagline 'the ease with which universities have moved teaching online shows they could have been accessible all along' and while I am *very* sympathetic to the intention there, a) what 'ease', b) 'moved teaching online' elides SO MANY problems https://twitter.com/HPS_Vanessa/status/1250310769855492096
Three things that are true: a) higher education has systematically and unacceptably failed disabled students and staff for decades; b) the current situation is a stopgap, which has taken untold hours of (often uncompensated) labour and stress in an unprecedented context...
c) online pedagogy is a set of skills, and to do it properly - and to be properly accessible through it - requires training and support and investment, and this kind of teaching will not look like the sort of 'idk, just record zoom lectures' people are being required to do now.
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