1. Accessibility and ePortfolios Andy Heath The Open University and Axelrod Access for All 5 th December 2006 Chester, UK

2. Some of the issues Universally accessible objects aren’t (even WCAG 2.0) –Need adaptation to context E.g. ACCLIP Many to many authoring –No single place to put resource on the problem Need to integrate many technologies including blended learning ones Adaptation at many levels –Learning Objects. Media, module, course …

3. Scenario A student prepares a CV for a specific job application with an international company. The CV has multiple objects, one of which is a video, the soundtrack of which is in French. Unknown to the student (necessarily), the interviewer is blind, and uses a screen-reader to listen to text on the screen. The interviewer does not speak French. The company provides language interpreter services and a personal assistant to help with description of anything (such as the video) which is inaccessible to the interviewer.

5. What do we need to do Objects and components must be suitable for screen-reader At delivery time we need to aggregate the video with the interpretation service and deliver to the interviewer. The student cannot and must not know the context of the interviewer

6. eu4all European Unified Approach for Assisted Lifelong Learning –design and implement an extensible “architecture” of European-wide services to support assistive life long learning for adult learners with special needs, which guarantees that the provided services are open, secure, standard-based, accessible and interoperable

7. eu4all Design an open service-oriented architecture for ALL Develop the software infrastructure for ALL services (including content, support and access services) Provide technical standards/specifications for ALL applications integrated with current and emerging eLearning standards Validate the results in large-scale higher education settings

8. eu4all 100 person-years over 4 years UKOU, UNED, ATOS, GIUNTI, TRIBAL, FIT, YORK, SOLUZIONA, CTAD E- ISIOTIS, EADTU, CIRPS, CSI, DPITALIA Implement with –Moodle –DotLRN –LearnXact http://www.eu4all-project.eu/