AccessLearn update, January 2017 [via Accessible Online Learning Community Group]

Happy New Year!  The Accessible Online Learning (AccessLearn) Community Group
co-chairs, Mary and Dave, would like to start the new year with a review of the
work our group has conducted to date — and a proposal for next steps.
Since starting in the Spring of 2015, AccessLearn has conducted the following
work:


  A call for participation, resulting in 86 participants 
  Two Surveys: An Initial AccessLearn Survey identified topics and key
challenges (technical, organisational, other) in creating accessible online
learning experiences. A subsequent survey identified two work streams.
  Workstream 1: Began an analysis of existing WAI documents and a list to
identify what exists, what needs additional information, and what is lacking in
guidance or resources focused on accessibility and online learning. 
  Workstream 2: Formed a 21 item list of accessibility information gaps that
exist in the online learning community and associated stakeholders.

While neither workstream was fully completed, we propose bringing the work
streams back together for the entire group to move forward. We have gathered
detail from 2 documents that came out of each workstream to form a combined
spreadsheet mapping W3C Resources and Gaps Related to Online Learning.
Our next work as a group will be to build out this document so that we have as
complete a list as possible of W3C accessibility web pages and a mapping to the
accessible online learning information gaps we'd previously identified. We'll
classify each information gap using one of the following categories:


  Information is not present on the WAI web site
  Information is hard to find
  Information is hard to apply to online learning
  Information is hard to find and hard to apply


The purpose of this work is to establish what needs to happen next to address
each information gaps and to ensure that WAI can best serve the accessibility
knowledge needs of people working in online learning. We'll be working closely
with the Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) in this effort.
We've provided more details of the upcoming work, including a link to the
document, in an email that was sent to list members. If you're currently in
AccessLearn, we encourage you to pitch in to finish this work; if you're not a
member and are interested in joining, please follow the instructions to sign up.
We'd love to have your help!
Our goal is to have contributions by 1 March 2017, when we plan to check in
again and send a progress update.



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