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Labelled participation

• The importance of interacting with participants primarily as learners rather than as disabled people.
• Careful not to put words in the mouths of the participants and instead left space and opportunity for participants to refer to themselves as disabled, if they wished to.
• This has meant that only 9 of the 30 participants explicitly referred to themselves as disabled or dyslexic in the interviews.
• In the participant authored case studies 40% have referred to their disability "label" but three of those were in such an oblique way that it was almost unnoticeable.
• All the students tended to describe functional difficulties related to the tasks undertaken and the technologies being used. We have carried this principle through to the design of the website and the strategy database