AIMS

Project APPLE aims to:

• establish a taxonomy of accessibility needs for people with cognitive disabilities and complex disabilities and map this in the context of other scales and classification systems used by professionals working in the field;
• develop contribution of standards and guidelines around the requirements of people with cognitive disability to the W3C Accessibility Initiative, E learning interoperability criteria and Macromedia multimedia authoring and accessibility support tools;
• develop, trial and prepare for the market an exemplar Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) for the use of people with cognitive disabilities;
• evaluate the efficacy of multimedia authoring as a process to develop and enable independence and self advocacy for people with a range of cognitive disabilities;
• establish a new network and forum for the public development of the field of ICT and multimedia use for those with cognitive disability;