This interview series and the associated website of supporting materials emerged from the CUNY Grad Center’s Interactive Technology and Pedagogy core courses.

In that spirit, Modifier Keys invites its readers to…:

• get interactive with this blog by leaving a reply in the Comments box, or by using audio & textual excerpts from the interviews in your writing on teaching and access;
• experiment with the technology that creates barrier-free learning for students at CUNY and beyond, and share those efforts with us; and
• deepen your pedagogy by using these technologies as “sites” for justice-centered abolitionist pedagogical practices, including collective access.

If you’re newer to the conversation around collective access, you might…

• Use our bibliography page to explore expansions of terms mentioned in our interviews, to review  resources and read up on references;
• Take action by engaging in dialogue with actual software developers to improve existing technology. (This is inspired by “How to Fail at Accessibility,” a multimodal essay by Trish Ang, a senior software developer at Slack) as issues emerge or
• show appreciation by supporting the work of our interviewees, most of whom are writers with books you can buy with a variety of currencies, as well as assign to discuss in class, read at the beach, and give to your friends for their birthdays.