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Tuesday, December 09, 2003
Impediment no barrier in Australia - Eric Wilson, SMH.com.au
New laws [in Australia] promise a shake-up of online learning. New extensions to the Disability Discrimination Act, aimed at improving education and training, will soon affect online learning and computer training generally. After seven years of unproductive consultations with the states, the Federal Government is set to act unilaterally next year, with regulations enforcing training accessibility for disabled people. The move is likely to cause the re-engineering of e-learning systems and curriculum, and modification of face-to-face software application courses. It will apply not just to government- funded education, but commercial education as well. Andrew Arch, of the National Information and Library Service, says: "A lot of e-learning includes audio, but often people don't provide a transcript or captions. We would say it's best to have one version which works for all, with the ability to show and hide the text, with colour changes from less to more contrast. And areas should enlarge to fill the screen."
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