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IMS Guidelines for Developing Accessible Learning Applications - Overview
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This is a set of guidelines developed by the IMS Accessibility Working Group to provide a framework for the distributed learning community. This framework sets the stage for what solutions currently exist, what the opportunities and possibilities are for implementing them, and the areas where more development and innovation are still needed in educational technologies to ensure education that is truly accessible to anyone, anytime, anywhere. |
Purpose
Other standards and guidelines currently exist, however the IMS Accessibility Guidelines are targeted at the distributed learning community and specifically address the challenges that exist in online education. The IMS Accessibility Guidelines are not meant to replace existing standards and guidelines, but instead to references to those resources and to provide additional information and solutions compatible with existing recommendations. That said, some topics addressed in this document, such as mathematic, scientific and music notation guidelines, do not yet have mainstreamed or widely adopted solutions. In these cases, this document offers suggestions and indicates the direction of current research. IMS Accessibility web site |
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The guidelines developed by the IMS Accessibility Project Group are intended to provide a framework for the distributed learning community. This framework will highlight existing solutions, discuss the opportunities and strategies for their implementation and will identify areas where further development and innovation are required to ensure education that is truly accessible to anyone, anytime, anywhere.
The topics considered in the guidelines are the following ones:
- Using XML for Accessibility.
- Guidelines for Accessible Delivery of Text, Audio, Images, and Multimedia
- Guidelines for Developing Accessible Asynchronous Communication and Collaboration Tools.
- Guidelines for Developing Accessible Synchronous Communication and Collaboration Tools
- Guidelines for Developing Accessible Interfaces and Interactive Environments.
- Guidelines for Testing and Assessment.
- Guidelines for Developing Accessible Authoring Tools.
- Guidelines for Topic Specific Accessibility.
- Legal Issues for Accessible Distance Learning.
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General Information
Title: “IMS Guidelines for Developing Accessible Learning Applications”
Version: 1.00
Release Date: 19 January 2004
Status: White Paper
Editors: Cathleen Barstow, Mark McKell, Madeleine Rothberg, Chris Schmidt
The electronic version is available at IMS Accessibility Web site (HTML).
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