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    Who needs transcripts? Online Training & Accessibility.

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

    • 11 min read

    Online training without a transcript is not fully accessible — it never was. When a session ends with no written record, it quietly excludes a significant proportion of learners: people who are Deaf or hard of hearing, those with auditory processing differences, ADHD, working memory difficulties, non-native speakers, and many others. Most of these needs are invisible to a facilitator; participants won’t announce them, they’ll simply get less from the session — or not attend at all. Transcripts aren’t a special accommodation. They’re part of how good training works.

    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

    • 4 min read

    Earlier this week, Brickfield Education Labs co-founder and CEO Gavin Henrick joined the expert panel at Empowering Teachers to Create Digital Content, the closing event of the TD3C project in Dublin. Here he shares his reflections on the day and his fuller thoughts on accessibility, copyright, and what it really means to put teachers at the centre of digital education.

    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

    • 9 min read

    Accessibility overlays promise a fast, low-cost path to compliance — but growing evidence from regulators, accessibility experts, and disability organisations shows they often fail to deliver. This article examines why overlays don’t fix underlying accessibility barriers, how they can interfere with assistive technologies, and why legal and regulatory bodies increasingly reject them as a compliance solution. More importantly, it outlines what genuine, sustainable digital accessibility actually requires.

    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

    • 4 min read

    Why ALL CAPS Text Creates Reading Barriers The research is clear: capitalising text doesn’t help readers — it hinders them Picture yourself reading a paragraph… Read More »Why ALL CAPS Text Creates Reading Barriers

    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

    • 8 min read

    Animated text overlays are everywhere — words bouncing, flashing, and flying across our screens in sync with speech. They look like captions, but they aren’t. When text is burned into a video instead of provided as a proper caption file, viewers lose control, assistive technologies lose access, and accessibility quietly disappears. This article explains why captions are infrastructure, not decoration — and how creators can keep their videos engaging without excluding the people who rely on captions most.