Collaborative Editing

The practice of multiple users simultaneously or sequentially creating and modifying shared documents or content. In accessibility contexts, collaborative editing poses particular challenges when participants use different modalities to interact with the same content — for example, a sighted user working with a graphical view of a mathematical formula while a blind user works with the same formula in Braille. Effective accessible collaborative editing requires real-time synchronisation between different representations, ensuring that changes made in one view are immediately reflected in all others. This is essential for inclusive education, where students with and without disabilities need to work together on the same materials.