[WG: Accessibility] FW: Sakai is being recognized as "taking accessibility seriously" on the WebAIM e-mail list

[scott williams]

As an accessibility coordinator, I very much like the idea of having our
Ctools/Sakai instance certified by the NFB.

Scott

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Michael S Elledge <elledge at msu.edu> wrote:

> Hi All--
>
> Several LMS products have received certification from NFB, including
> Desire2Learn and Blackboard:
>
> http://secure.nfb.org/nfbnva/public/certifiedsites.aspx
>
> It seems like this something Sakai should look into, since not having
> certification will put it at a competitive disadvantage; NFB will do a
> free review btw.
>
> More information about testing can be found at this address:
> http://www.nfb.org/nfb/certification_criteria.asp?SnID=2043227788
>
> Mike
>
> On 12/11/2010 12:25 PM, Nate Angell wrote:
> > Brian/Mary:
> >
> > I agree with Eli: thanks for sharing!
> >
> > My takeaway from this is that whatever Sakai's actual accessibility,
> > our approach to accessibility is correct: to be open and thorough.
> > Just putting a stamp on software certifying a complex characteristic
> > like accessibility is not the same thing as having an ongoing, open
> > and deep engagement with it.
> >
> > - Nate
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Eli Cochran<eli at media.berkeley.edu>
>  wrote:
> >> Brian,
> >> Thanks for sharing that. I'm spreading a little wider.
> >>
> >> - Eli
> >>
> >> On Dec 9, 2010, at 9:10 AM, Richwine, Brian L wrote:
> >>
> >>> Mary found this encouraging take on the Sakai Community on a WebAIM
> e-mail list:
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Stores, Mary A.
> >>> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 11:55 AM
> >>> To: Richwine, Brian L; Londergan, M D; Humbert, Joseph A
> >>> Subject: Sakai is being recognized as "taking accessibility seriously"
> on the WebAIM e-mail list
> >>>
> >>> Is there anything I should say to them? I'm happy to do something.
> >>>
> >>> Mary
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ----- Forwarded message from deborah.kaplan at suberic.net -----
> >>>     Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:47:14 -0500 (EST)
> >>>     From: deborah.kaplan at suberic.net
> >>> Reply-To: WebAIM Discussion List<webaim-forum at list.webaim.org>
> >>> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Accessible SCORM Compliant E-Learning Software
> >>>       To: WebAIM Discussion List<webaim-forum at list.webaim.org>
> >>>
> >>> Sam asked:
> >>>
> >>> "I am looking for a SCORM compliant e-learning software and authoring
> tool that is accessible. Ideally, both the authoring tools and the courses
> they produce should be accessible."
> >>>
> >>> And Michael Langum responded:
> >>>
> >>> "Don't forget that an accessible course is only half the issue.
> >>> You (or you client) will also need to ensure that your Learning
> Management System (LMS) is also accessible."
> >>>
> >>> I will also add, the classes are only accessible as the course
> designers make them. No matter how much accessibility is built into the
> learning management system, if the professor/course designer puts up videos
> without captions, flash without accessibility, and images without
> alternative text. Training your faculty/course designers is a huge part of
> making sure your classes are accessible.
> >>>
> >>> (Also, kudos for making sure that both the authoring tools and the
> courses be accessible -- many course designers have accessibility needs as
> well! As do the LMS administrators, so make sure that the administration
> tools are also accessible.)
> >>>
> >>> In any case, I've been very impressed with both Moodle and Sakai,
> fairly unimpressed with Blackboard, and exceedingly unimpressed with Angel.
> The latter two obfuscate what they mean by accessibility and what their
> accessibility efforts are. Moodle and Sakai, on the other hand, both take
> accessibility very seriously and are very open about what they mean by
> accessibility and what their efforts are:
> >>>
> >>> http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_Accessibility_Specification
> >>>
> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/2ACC/Sakai's+Current+Accessibility
> >>>
> >>> My favorite part of the Moodle accessibility specification is at
> >>> <
> http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_Accessibility_Specification#Rationale_for_Moodle_accessibility
> >:
> >>> the legal, moral, and market argument for taking accessibility
> seriously.
> >>>
> >>> -Deborah
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> >>>
> >>> ----- End forwarded message -----
> >>>
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> >>
> >> Eli Cochran
> >> manager of user experience design
> >> user interaction developer
> >> Educational Technology Services, UC Berkeley
> >>
> >> "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing
> left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
> >>     - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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Scott Williams
Web Accessibility Coordinator
Office of Institutional Equity
University of Michigan
734.474.0836
swims at umich.edu
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