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"The Northstar Digital Literacy Project defines basic skills needed to perform tasks on computers and online. The ability of adults to perform these tasks can be assessed through online, self-guided modules. Included are basic computer digital literacy standards and modules in nine main areas: Basic Computer Use, Internet, Windows Operating System, Mac OS, Email, Microsoft Word, Social Media, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint."

"Problem/need addressed: The Learner Web Partnership addresses the primary barriers to broadband access and use among adults in the United States: affordability, lack of digital literacy skills, and a perceived lack of content relevant to their daily lives, needs, and future aspirations. These barriers are exacerbated among populations that have the lowest levels of broadband access: primarily low-income adults who lack a high school education. This includes a growing-and increasingly diverse-population of adults from immigrant and language-minority communities."

Recommended by ABE educator to communicate with learners

This is very intriguing to me. Especially for my students who have trouble getting to school. Being able to video message a lesson to my students might keep some of them engaged when life throws them curveballs.

Karwai Pun is an interaction designer currently working on Service Optimisation to make existing and new services better for our users. Karwai is part of an accessibility group at Home Office Digital, leading on autism, and has created these dos and don'ts posters as a way of approaching accessibility from a design perspective.

Omits designing for 100% visually impaired. According to my son, adequate tech support is even more of a problem.

be sure to scroll down to "What the posters say" for HTML lists for the dos and don'ts of designing for users with accessibility needs including autism, blindness, low vision, deaf or hard of hearing, mobility and dyslexia