Appendix B: Employee Consent Form and Survey Questions

Lost in Translation: Co-designed Approaches to Implement Digital Accessibility Initiatives

Project Details

Student Investigator:

Luke McKnight OCAD University/Langara College lmcknight@ocadu.ca

Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Michelle Miller, Faculty of Arts & Science, OCAD University michellemiller@ocadu.ca

Invitation and Project Description

You are invited to participate in an online survey that is part of a research study at OCAD University. The purpose of Lost in Translation: Co-designed Approaches to Implement Digital Accessibility Initiatives is to analyze student needs and preferences regarding digital learning materials and formats and make those requirements tangible and feasible for instructors.

This study is undertaken by Luke McKnight as part of a Major Research Project (MRP) at OCAD University. This project will contribute to the completion of a Master of Design degree.

 If you are a Langara employee you are welcome to participate in this survey.

 What’s Involved

 This survey consists of 7 questions and is expected to take approximately 10 minutes to complete.

Your participation in this on-line survey is voluntary. You may choose to answer as many questions as you wish, or stop at any time. By answering the questions in the survey, you are agreeing to participate.

There will be no negative consequences if you choose not to complete the survey.  The survey asks for no direct identifiers and all the data collected will be kept confidential. The information that you provide will be summarized, in an anonymous format. It is possible, though unlikely, that you may be identifiable through the information that you provide in your responses.

Once you submit your survey, it will not be possible to remove or amend your responses due to the anonymous nature of the data.

Raw data collected in this survey will be kept on a secure Microsoft OneDrive hosted in Canada. The data is only available to the Student Investigator and Principal Supervisor until April 30, 2028, after which time it will be destroyed.

Survey Results

 Results of this study may be published in the OCADU Open Research Repository (openresearch.ocadu.ca/). In any publication, the data will be presented in aggregate forms. Study results will be available by April 30, 2026.

If you have any further questions concerning this research, please do not hesitate to contact the researchers listed above.

This survey has been approved by the OCAD University Research Ethics Board, approval number 2025-42 and the Langara College Research Ethics Board.