1. Page 1 Discovery of Accessible Educational Resources ● LRMI is a new specification for tagging Learning Resources –Led by Association of Education Publishers and Creative Commons –Identified the need for accessibility metadata ● Other efforts have tackled accessibility (a11y) metadata –Dublin Core Accessibility –Access for All (ISO 24751, IMS Global), EDItEUR/ONIX

2. Page 2 Discovery of Accessible Educational Resources ● With support from the Gates Foundation, Benetech has assembled Working Group to identify a11y metadata standards for use in the Learning Registry Index and Schema.org ● Began work in December, 2012, properties and user stories in progress – first public draft at end of February ● Learn more at http://a11ymetadata.org/http://a11ymetadata.org/

3. Page 3 Educational Video Search Example