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.