Standards & Technologies for Digital Learning (part III)

Continuing from the previous posts (post 1, post 2) on standards & technologies for digital learning, accessibility and other infrastructure/languages/components are discussed. The scope of this trilogy of blog posts is to gather related standards and technologies for the field of digital learning, mapping as fully as possible, the existing solutions that any implementer of relevant services/software, needs to take into consideration.

Accessibility

IMS Access for All (AfA) version 2.0: The workgroup of IMS on Accessibility, focuses on the adaptation or personalization of resources, interfaces and content to meet the needs of individuals (source). The group believes that the accessibility of the resource has to be addressed immediately within a learning context.

This graphic I really liked, is from the same IMS page, outlinining the “layers” that accessibility affects and concerns. Starting from the content creation that needs to be carried out with authoring tools and learning strategies that support accessible content, continuing to design that supports accessibility and assessment that makes sure that learner is successful in learning. It also references the need for websites and other digital products to be designed/created with accessibility in mind and also mentions the need for…