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AccessLearn Group Charter
From Accessible Online Learning Community Group
Contents
Project Definition
Purpose
The primary purpose of the W3C Accessible Online Learning Community Group (AccessLearn) is to improve learning for people with disabilities through technology specifications, standards, and best practices that support online education.
Specific Goals of the Group
The following are goals for AccessLearn activities:
- Identify W3C specifications, standards, and best practices that are relevant to online education
- Identify gaps in W3C specifications, standards, and best practices in supporting learners and instructors with disabilities who are engaged in online education
- Identify modifications to W3C specifications, standards, and best practices to better support accessible online education
Audience and Stakeholders
The following are the target audience for AccessLearn recommendations:
- AccessLearn Community Group members
- Authors/owners of W3C technology specifications (W3C Working Groups)
- Authors/owners of W3C accessibility standards (W3C Working Groups)
- Authors/owners of W3C best practices (W3C Working Groups)
- Policymakers interested in ensuring the accessibility of online learning
- Researchers engaged in accessible online learning scholarship
- Designers and vendors of learning management systems (LMS) and content management systems (CMS)
- Online education service providers
- Educational publishers
- Instructional designers
- Learners and instructors with disabilities
- General public
Outcomes
Note: Outcomes may not be measurable, and we may not be able to correlate outcomes to AccessLearn activities. The exercise of listing outcomes in the project charter context is to help illuminate project goals, not to identify metrics to measure project success.
Online learning
- Decrease the technological barriers for online learners and instructors with disabilities
- Increase in number of students with disabilities involved in learning online
- Increase in number of instructors with disabilities involved in teaching online
- Increase in overall positive learning outcomes for all students, including students with disabilities
- Increase in systemic efficiencies in online course design and assist designers in achieving instructional and institutional goals
Communication
- Regular positive engagement with W3C working groups
- Increase in discussions of online learning in accessibility-related working groups
- Increase in discussion of accessible online learning in technology specifications and standards working groups
- Increase in engagement with users of specifications, standards, and best practices to understand their use of the aforesaid in designing online learning systems