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Re: Accessible SCORM Compliant E-Learning Software

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From: Cramer, Brian
Date: Dec 14, 2010 12:57PM

I have yet to find a course development tool which produces good
accessible output. Captivate seems to take it pretty seriously and comes
pretty close. It offers captioning, alternative text, etc. but there are
several issues ("button button", navigation pains) and you are fairly
limited to the WYSIWYG capabilities unless you jump into flash and then
some of the accessibility features become disabled. The bandwidth needs
for the all-flash output become a dissuading factor as well.

We have ended up using a modified HTML/JS based framework called
LibSCORM which is pretty easy to configure and loads content files (HTML
or SWF) via XHR requests and handles all the API communication. I'd
highly recommend it as it leaves much of the output under the control of
the developers.

The eLML markup language and corresponding tools look promising as well.
We have not explored using these as part of the production/delivery but
will probably do so in our next course development.

+1 on the recommendation of Moodle or Sakai as well for an LMS solution.

LibSCORM: http://code.google.com/p/libscorm/
eLML: http://www.elml.ch/website/en/html/index.php

Brian Cramer