Impediment no barrier
Categorised under: E-learning, Usability & user-centered design
Eric Wilson has written an article on the Disability Discrimination Act and how it applies to e-learning in Australia. To quote:
New extensions to the Disability Discrimination Act, aimed at improving education and training, will soon affect online learning and computer training generally. After seven years of unproductive consultations with the states, the Federal Government is set to act unilaterally next year, with regulations enforcing training accessibility for disabled people. The move is likely to cause the re-engineering of e-learning systems and curriculum, and modification of face-to-face software application courses.
It will apply not just to government- funded education, but commercial education as well.
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