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From: Rangin, Hadi Bargi
Date: Dec 14, 2010 9:57AM

Hi Deborah,

To be fair to Blackboard, I need to mention that they have been trying hard to become more accessible in the past 2-3 years. It is more accessible than you probably have seen it last time especially in the 9.1 version. They have realized the fact that the best time to address accessibility is at the design stage and they continue to collaborate with blackboard accessibility group for selected new modules or modules to be redesigned. I wished that they could do it for all modules but our resources are limited.

I would like to use this opportunity to invite anyone who is interested in improving the accessibility of Blackboard to join the blackboard Accessibility Collaboration Group and help us in this effort. Please visit http://collaborate.athenpro.org/group/bb or drop an e-mail to me if you are interested to join the group.

At the upcoming CSUN conference one of my colleague at Indiana University and I will be comparing 4 LMS including Moodle, Sakai, Desire2Learn, and Blackboard. It is very difficult to simply say which one is accessible because some of them are significantly more complex than others and clearly a more complex system can be exposed to more accessibility issues.
There are definitely accessibility issues that need to be addressed with Blackboard LMS but again, it is getting better after each release.

Thanks,
Hadi