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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

"This education trends report focuses on two related but distinct challenges confronting state policy leaders and students as they seek to leverage online distance education to meet personal and statewide education goals, namely access to infrastructure and ensuring availability of financial resources."

"Although nine out of 10 low-income families have Internet access at home, most are underconnected: that is, they have "mobile-only" access - they are able to connect to the Internet only through a smart device, such as a tablet or a smartphone."

Inge de Waard's m-learning courses addressed -- and discussed -- this point. It applies to third health training as much as it urban poverty in the U.S. I also recall an article several years back about inner city youth and parents hunting down hotspots for doing homework and assignments. Both are part of the "new" digital divide ~ not that the "old" one ever went away, claims of the privileged to the contrary. Anyway, I saved the links (hopefully on Diggo) and will look for them. PS I've been using #openabe and #adulted but will add OpenABEMOOC to collection -- blessed be the bulk edit function

Designing a website that also looks good on mobiles is known as responsive web design. There is a mooc on Coursera that teaches this. https://www.coursera.org/learn/website-coding http://www.html5rocks.com/en/mobile/responsivedesign/ http://www.zingdesign.com/responsive-website-design-cheatsheet1/

"The United States Federal government is supporting the use of open educational resources to provide equitable access to quality education."

"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."

Broadband access and implications for efforts to address equity gaps in postsecondary attainment

This Global Report on Adult Learning and Education builds on strong foundations. Since the first International Conference on Adult Education in 1949, UNESCO Member States have convened every twelve years to discuss the state of adult education in their countries. In 1976, the UNESCO General Conference approved the Recommendation on the Development of Adult Education, confirming that "access of adults to education, in the context of lifelong education, is a fundamental aspect of the right to education, and facilitates the exercise of the right to participate in political, cultural, artistic and scientific life."

"This publication series, Learning for Life: The Opportunity for Technology to Transform Adult Education, explores technology readiness, access, and use within various adult education delivery channels, as well as market opportunities, program decision-making processes, and the supplier ecosystem for instructional resources. The research and analysis featured in these publications will assist suppliers, investors, policy professionals, and institutions as they explore opportunities in the adult education market."

"Recent research on digital media use points to two important gaps in educational opportunity for low-income families with young children. First, there is an access gap. Second, there is what scholars refer to as a participation gap, in which digital resources are not well guided or supported to ensure educational progress. Despite these barriers, many low-income families are using media and new technologies in creative ways to support their children's pathways to success and to strengthen family relationships. In this report, media and policy expert Victoria Rideout and Rutgers University scholar Vikki Katz explore the current uses of digital technologies to help promote educational opportunities for all through a national survey of nearly 1,200 low-income parents of school-age children and in-person interviews with lower-income, Hispanic families in three communities located in Arizona, California, and Colorado."

some open licensed materials - not sure how accessible the Moodle courses are outside of Canada - worth trying? some of the media elements might be useful

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