Moodle and Accessibility

You may already be famil­iar with Moo­dle, an open source, mod­u­lar­ized, social con­struc­tion­ist course man­age­ment sys­tem started by lead devel­oper Mar­tin Dougia­mas in 1999.

It looks like the cur­rent ver­sion (1.1.1) has some basic acces­si­bil­ity fea­tures built in, but their road map for the next year is the really good part. By ver­sion 2.0, planned for early 2004, they are work­ing towards xhtml tran­si­tional com­pli­ance. Right now they are plan­ning on using some basic tables, but they will be eas­ily replaced with CSS posi­tion­ing. Then, ver­sion 2.1 is expected to bring basic sup­port for SCORM packages.

Moo­dle is already a full-featured, very usable CMS with an active devel­op­ers com­mu­nity and it looks like the next few months are going to bring lots of excit­ing changes. If any of you are inter­ested in being a part of the con­ver­sa­tions that are hap­pen­ing there, you can visit their forums (click login as guest). The devel­op­ers appear to be very open to suggestions.