IMS Guidelines for Developing Accessible Learning Applications

This set of guide­lines is a col­lab­o­ra­tion between the IMS Global Learn­ing Con­sor­tium and Project SALT at WGBH’s NCAM. The guide­lines out­line the respon­si­bil­i­ties of every­one involved in the devel­op­ment and uti­liza­tion of acces­si­ble online con­tent, from cre­ators of author­ing envi­ron­ments to students.

The white paper presents guide­lines for author­ing (using XML, CSS and SVG), mul­ti­me­dia and almost any tech­nol­ogy used in an online course (white­board, doc­u­ment repos­i­to­ries, dis­cus­sion board…). There is also a help­ful appen­dix with links to help­ful sites on legal issues in regards to acce­si­ble dis­tance edu­ca­tion for a num­ber of countries.

The Full Table of Con­tents is use­ful for nav­i­gat­ing to spe­cific parts of the document.