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.