How can we make education more digitally accessible?

In its effort to share Europe’s digital future, the European Union has taken several regulatory initiatives to promote digital accessibility, thereby aiming to build a social and inclusive European “union of equality”, where all Europeans can take a full and active part in the digital economy and society. Strong accessibility requirements make a real difference for disabled people but they affect many others too, including professions, businesses and public organizations, among which in particular educational institutions. While a major cause for concern with regard to the accessibility of legal education, new digital technologies, paradoxically, have a lot to offer education in terms of accessibility, for example in the field of enriching course material, increasing the accessibility of education, reducing disadvantages, enabling new forms of education and reaching new target groups.

In this episode of The Law of Tech Podcast, I explored the existing and upcoming requirements towards making education more digitally accessible with Raffi Lion, former business developer at the young tech-startup Amberscript.

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