SREB Digital Learning Content Toolbox

The SREB Digital Learning Content ToolBox provides policy and technical digital content resources for schools, colleges and state education agencies. The resources are organized into two topical areas: accessibility and portability/usability. Accessibility addresses Section 508 of the federal Rehabilitation Act and related disability issues. Portability/usability relates to the migration of digital content to student learning materials, including e-courses.
 

Accessibility

Accessibility Guidelines for Section 508

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
  http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-WCAG20-20040730/

• Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
  http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/full-checklist.html

• WebAIM Section 508 Checklist
  http://www.webaim.org/standards/508/checklist

• Comparison WCAG and Section 508 Web
  http://www.jimthatcher.com/sidebyside.htm

Accessibility Validation Tools 

• Bobby
  http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp

• Cynthia Says
  http://www.cynthiasays.com/

• Wave 3.0 Web Accessibility Tool
  http://wave.webaim.org/index.jsp

Portability/Usability

W3C Guidelines

• W3C (CSS, HTML, XHTML, XML, etc.)
  http://www.w3.org

W3C Markup Validation Service

• Markup Validation Service (HTML, XHTML, etc.)
  http://validator.w3.org/

• W3C CSS Validation Service
  http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator-uri.html

• 3C MathML Validator
  http://www.w3.org/Math/validator/

• W3C RDF Validation Service
  http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/

• W3C Validator for XML Schema
  http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv

• HTML Tidy
  http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/

• WDG HTML Validator
  http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/

Web Design and Usability Guidelines

• Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines Sorting Tool
  http://usability.gov/pdfs/chap.html
  (The entire Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines publication can be found at this site:
  http://usability.gov/pdfs/guidelines_book.pdf)

Standards and Technical Specifications

• IMS Information
  IMS Content Packaging
  http://www.imsglobal.org/content/packaging/index.html
  
  Reusable eLearning Object Authoring & Delivery (RELOAD) Project
  http://www.reload.ac.uk/background.html

• SCORM
  Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM)
  http://www.adlnet.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=SCORMDown
  
  SCORM 2004 Conformance Test Suite Version 1.3.1 (Self Test)
  http://www.adlnet.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=DownFile&libid=735&bc=false