Why Should We Care About Accessibility Standards for Elearning?
As eLearning professionals, we are tasked with providing training and support to all personnel in our organization.
Often in embarking on this task we don’t fully know what the totality of this audience encompasses.
In fact, it’s very easy to focus solely on the content and how we can communicate the desired information in an engaging manner that we and our learning audience can easily digest. While the big picture rarely escapes us, it’s easy to lose sight of some of the realities that many of our colleagues face. Too often, if we do realize them, it’s too easy to simply brush them aside as unimportant or something that can be addressed in another way, later.
There are any number of reasons why accessibility standards in eLearning should be at the forefront of our minds when we create and distribute content – being inclusive, creating better content, meeting legal requirements, helping with literacy and language challenges, reducing bandwidth concerns, improving access from multiple types of device including mobile. And, well, it really all boils down to just doing the right thing.
Wait, you might be thinking, what do accessibility standards in eLearning have to do with creating better content or reducing bandwidth issues?
As the COVID-19 crisis has brought to our attention, we are more interconnected than we often imagine and the principals and efforts that one applies to accessible training are also intertwined with some of the same goals and technology we use to address other issues in training.
There’s nothing better than accomplishing multiple goals with individual changes!
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