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This topic collects resources around issues of accessibility and user requirements.

For a number of years JISC CETIS has supported a community focussed on Accessibility issues. The Accessibility community (Special Interest Group) is for everyone in UK Higher and Further Education, who is interested in supporting a learner's individual needs and preferences. The group is run as a forum, where members can share experiences, discuss issues, and suggest solutions.

The group aims to:

  • Provide information on and promote the use of relevant accessibility guidelines, specifications, and standards for e-learning;
  • Act as an interface between the FE and HE community and the specification producers;
  • Track issues across relevant accessibility guidelines, specifications, and standards;
  • Act as a discussion and dissemination forum, focusing on good practice in making learning technology accessible to all.

There is also the JISC CETIS Accessibility JISCMail Discussion List and the Accessibility Resource List.

 

If you'd like further information, please contact Sharon.

Articles

Accessibility of e-Textbook Readers
10 Feb 2012 Sharon's Blog
Last night, I sat in on an EASI (Equal Access to Softtware and Information) webinar about the accessibility of e-textbook readers by Ken Petri from Ohio State University. It seems as though the device designers are really trying hard to get it right, although there’s still some way to go.
Accessibility Assessment Architecture and Modelling Packaged Content Mobile Learning Standards
Joint BSI/JISC CETIS Accessibility Workshop
24 Mar 2011 Sharon's Blog
This is a brief overview of February's Accessibility SIG (Special Interest Group) meeting, which was jointly run with BSI (British Standards Institution) as an informal workshop, focussing on the accessibility standards' work being done around the world across various domains. It took advantage of the presence of a number of international standards developers and strategists, who were in the UK (United Kingdom) at the time, to foster exchange of work and ideas between the standards and education communities.
Accessibility Standards
Crowdsourcing to Fix the Web
08 Mar 2011 Sharon's Blog
Fix The Web is a site which encourages people with disabilities to report any accessibility problems they have with a website.
Accessibility
From Design to implementation - DVLE programme Strand A Showcase
31 Jan 2011 Sheila MacNeill
Last week the three Strand A projects from the current JISC funded DVLE programme, took part in an online showcase to share their outcomes now their six month development phase is over. The three projects are quite diverse both in scale, approach and outputs. As I've written about before, the WIDE project from [...]
Accessibility Learning Platforms Widgets
Widget creation and learning design templates - re-use in action
15 Dec 2010 Sheila MacNeill
Sustainability and re-use of project outputs is a perennial issue. However I was really heartened this week to see a great example of a project using and building on previously funded work from the WIDE project. WIDE is part of the current JISC funded DVLE programme. It is one of three six month [...]
Accessibility Learning Platforms Widgets Learning Design
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Accessibility Events



Past Events


Accessibility SIG Meeting
Date: 13 May 2009
16th Accessibility SIG Meeting
Date: 24 Jul 2007


Accessibility Resources


Information for Presenters
Date: Sep 2007
Guidelines for presenters by Sharon Perry
Previous Accessibility SIG Meetings
Date: Sep 2007
List of all previous Accessibility meetings with links to presentations, podcasts and notes.
Resource List
Date: Feb 2007
Central resource for information, articles and links relating to accessibility and learning technology.
Accessibility Tips
Date: Jan 2007
A general overview on what accessibility is, why you need it and some simple ways of improving the accessibility of your learning resources.
Briefing: IMS ACCMD
Date: Jan 2007
A short publication which explains what the IMS ACCMD (AccessibilityForAll Metadata) Specification is about and how it works.

Accessibility Publications