Focus group as a technique for analyzing the attitude and aptitude of online university teaching staff towards students with visual disabilities

Guaranteeing equal opportunities and web accessibility is essential to minimize the barriers that students with visual disabilities may encounter when enrolling in the online university. In this context, teaching practice is one of the most outstanding elements in the teaching-learning process of this group. This study is contextualized in a research paper that focuses on the analysis of online teaching practice with university students with visual impairment. The objective of this communication is to analyze teaching attitude and aptitude of online university staff, in terms of inclusion and accessibility, towards students with visual impairment, as well as to know the climate of group partners. In this way, is analyzed the data of a sample of 6 teachers from the Isabel I Online University who participated in a focus group session that is part of a research carried out through a mixed methodology. A structured script of 25 open questions was created addressing: attitude, training and advice, methodological aspects and classroom climate. The results show that the care offered manages to promote inclusion, mainly thanks to the presence of positive attitudes towards the group and its needs.