{"id":351,"date":"2017-03-01T13:09:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T13:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/?p=351"},"modified":"2017-03-01T13:09:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T13:09:36","slug":"opera-open-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/2017\/03\/01\/opera-open-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"OPERA Open Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Howard Leicester&#8217;s open lecture about academia and accessibility is now available to <a href=\"https:\/\/player.kent.ac.uk\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=8895eaa2-0046-4027-9fb3-1fe54cce82ce\">view online<\/a> (login required). In a very funny and engaging lecture he spoke about his work with the NHS&#8217;s Accessible Information Standard, academic life, undertaking research and advocacy roles in the public sector. What is particularly extraordinary about Howard is that he has progressive deafblindness and he had a very powerful story to tell about potential barriers to access.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/files\/2017\/03\/access.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-352\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/files\/2017\/03\/access-300x117.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/files\/2017\/03\/access-300x117.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/files\/2017\/03\/access.png 449w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Howard Leicester&#8217;s open lecture about academia and accessibility is now available to view online (login required). In a very funny and engaging lecture he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/2017\/03\/01\/opera-open-lecture\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6598,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}