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Re: Accessible elearning platform

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From: David Sloan
Date: Jun 13, 2016 3:08AM

Hi Sophie,

I think that question is actually at least two questions:
* how accessible is the platform to learners and instructors with disabilities? (which might be measured by WCAG conformance)
* how well does the platform support instructors in creating accessible learning experiences? (which might be measured by ATAG conformance)

This LMS accessibility comparison study is a few years old now, so there will likely have been improvements made since then to the systems that were reviewed. But I think it's very useful as an independent comparison of 4 LMSs: Blackboard, Desire2Learn, SAKAI and Moodle:
http://blog.bargirangin.com/2013/03/a-comparison-of-learning-management.html

LMS vendors will provide lots of accessibility information about their own products, too, which allows you to make independent comparison. But I'd also be interested to learn whether there is an LMS system that WebAIM list members find in practice performs particularly well from an accessibility perspective.

For interest, I'm involved in a W3C Community Group on Accessible Online Learning, which is working in this area:
https://www.w3.org/community/accesslearn/

Dave

> On 13 Jun 2016, at 09:49, Sophie Schuermans < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Can anyone recommend an e-learning platform that makes it possible to
> produce accessible e-learning courses?
> Best regards,
>
> Sophie

David Sloan

UX Research Lead
The Paciello Group
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