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

Thu Jan 6 12:23:43 PST 2011

I have one problem with this. 

We should not only be looking at blindness testing there are many other
agencies that help with access appraisals and they all look at all
disability classes nfb evaluations are two narrow and not worth the price.
We really need to have a wider evaluation and not pay for a bye in from each
disability group one by one. I say this as a blind person just to give
prospective 

Lucy Greco

Assistive Technology Specialist

Disabled Student's Program UC Berkeley

(510) 643-7591

http://attlc.berkeley.edu 

http://webaccess.berkeley.edu

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

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+Accessibilit
y
>>>
>>> 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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