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An example board with four columns and numerous different posts, covering different stages of project management: Scoping, Design, Development, and UAT and Helpdocs. Post content includes text with some markdown formatting, links, images, and videos.

Board release: comment notifications keep students in the conversation

14th May 2026

Who needs transcripts? Online Training & Accessibility.

Transcripts Are Not a Nice-to-Have. They Are the Session.

30th March 2026

Attendees seated at Trinity Business School, Dublin, watching the expert panel discussion. The panel members are visible in the foreground seated facing the attendees: Gavin Henrick, CEO and Co-Founder of Brickfield Education Labs; Madeline Murray, National Coordinator at Oide Technology in Education; Rosa Doran, President and Founder of NUCLIO; and Alan Culbert, Deputy Principal of Edmund Rice College.

Brickfield at TD3C: Reflections from the Panel

27th March 2026

a laptop with a Moodle course ("Digital Accessibility Fundamentals") with the NVDA Speech Viewer open showing screen reader output, a blue focus ring on the current activity, and a Windows taskbar.

Why Accessibility Overlays Fail

27th March 2026

ALL CAPS” are crossed out in red above “Mixed Case ✓” in green, with the caption “Typography & Accessibility” below.

Why ALL CAPS Text Creates Reading Barriers

26th March 2026

Side-by-side comparison of two approaches to video captions. On the left, labelled "Proper Caption File (.srt / .vtt)", a video player shows steady white caption text on a dark background reading "Welcome to today's session on content quality", with a CC ON button visible. Below it, five green ticks confirm: user can resize, recolour, and reposition; screen readers can access the text; steady pace that is readable and predictable; generates transcripts, translations, and search; works with LMS and video platforms. A summary reads "Captions as data — functional, flexible, accessible." On the right, labelled "Burned-In Animated Text", the same video shows words scattered across the frame in different sizes, colours, angles, and opacities, with no CC control available. Below it, five red crosses confirm: no user control over size, colour, or position; invisible to screen readers and assistive tech; rapid animation that is hard to read and may cause nausea; no transcripts, translations, or search; trapped as pixels with no platform able to use it. A summary reads "Captions as decoration — rigid, inaccessible, exclusionary."

When Captions Become Decoration: Why Animated Text Overlays Are an Accessibility Problem

25th March 2026

Opening Links in a New Window. It compares poor and good link text: the left example shows “click here” and “read more” crossed out as bad link text, while the right example shows the descriptive link “Download the guide (PDF, opens in new tab)” with a check mark indicating it is the recommended practice.

Opening Links in a New Window: Accessibility Guidance

13th March 2026

International Women’s Day

6th March 2026

“PDF” crossed out in red above green text reading “HTML · DOCX,” with the subtitle “Document Format & Accessibility.”

Accessible Document Formats

26th February 2026

a laptop with a Moodle course ("Digital Accessibility Fundamentals") with the NVDA Speech Viewer open showing screen reader output, a blue focus ring on the current activity, and a Windows taskbar.

Tips for Designing Moodle Courses That Work for Screen Reader Users (and Everyone Else)

23rd February 2026

11 February. International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Meet the women driving innovation at Brickfield Education Labs.

International Day of Women and Girls in Science

11th February 2026

why-centred-text-slows-reading-blog-image

Why Centered Text Slows Reading

26th January 2026