Seale, Jane (2004) The development of accessibility practices in e-learning: an exploration of communities of practice. Association for Learning Technology Journal, 12 (1). pp. 51-63. ISSN 0968-7769 (print)/1741-1629 (online)

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Abstract

The UK's 2001 Special Educational Needs and Disability Act has charged learning technologists with the responsibility of ensuring that electronic teaching materials can be accessed by disabled students. In an attempt to explore how learning technologists are developing practices to produce accessible electronic materials this paper will present a review of the accessibility literature and identify key issues that may influence the 'accessibility' practices of learning technologists. These emerging issues are interpreted using Wenger's theory of communities of practice, with a particular emphasis on the development of accessibility practices that may be shared by a number of related communities of practices and on how the focus of accessibility practices may soon shift from the product to the process of accessibility.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	L Education > LB Theory and practice of education L Education > LC Special aspects of education > LC1022 - 1022.25 Computer-assisted Education
Divisions:	ALT-J Journal
Depositing User:	Justin Smith
Date Deposited:	06 Aug 2009 17:47
Last Modified:	04 Apr 2011 09:04
URI:	http://repository.alt.ac.uk/id/eprint/619

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