Summary
Disabled people are a significant part of the community and wise businesses will seek to engage with them, both as customers and as employees. It is particularly important that those authoring e-learning courses address accessibility issues. Many have felt that accessibility would prove to be an area in which the programmer would continue to have to be involved in e-learning development and that the increasing emphasis that is being placed on accessibility in authoring courses would mean that rapid e-learning would remain second best, with truly professional e-learning remaining the preserve of the programmer. However the doomsayers have proved to be wrong in this area as in many others. Having cracked the basic issues of creating user-friendly authoring tools, developers are now focusing on how to overcome the remaining technological barriers to users producing first rate e-learning content, as well as developing templates, wizards and pieces of content which guide and facilitate the development of learning which meets the highest standards.
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An Increasing Appetite
Around 18 per cent of the adult population is disabled1; some 10 million people whose spending power is estimated at £80 billion2. The disabled are therefore a significant part of the community and wise businesses will seek to engage with them, both as customers and as employees. Like all individuals ...
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