Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: dotLRN accessibility study

7: Re: dotLRN accessibility study (response to 1)

Posted by Rafael Calvo on 10/27/04 07:49 AM

Thanks Tristan,
This is an excellent contribution.
It is extremely important for an LMS to comply with accessibility standards. In Australia (and I think the USA) it is actually a legal obligation!. If I remember correctly, In Australia IBM got sued duringthe Sydney olympics because the olympic site was not accessible.

It would be great if 2.1 could comply with all the level 1 standards. It sounds as something extremely simple.
We could then have the W3C logos like plone's default installation.

Should we have a TIP also saying that new core packages should follow the guidelines for level 2?

cheers

Rafael

8: Re: dotLRN accessibility study (response to 7)

Posted by Carl Robert Blesius on 10/27/04 08:17 AM

Re: guideline conformance.

I wonder how difficult it would be to make the automated accessibility testing that Tristan mentions in his thesis part of the OpenACS developer workflow (e.g. developer tool that dumps dynamically generated pages to an non-password-protected area that can be tested by the freely available web based accessibility tools mentioned).