Re: [OS:N:] Re: Questionaire about the support of students rights and the freedom in the learning environment

--- Access Systems <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, James Michael DuPont wrote:
> 
> > 
> > --- Jeremy Hogan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 
> > 
> > The crux of my point is summed up here : 
> > 
> > > Understand the
> > > difference between the obligations of public education and the
> agenda
> > > of commercial training.
> > 
> > I am interested in the students rights, regardless of where.
> > 
> > > 1) HTML is an open file format last I checked
> > > 2) No one restricts the students access to any code, except
> perhaps
> > > Digital Think or Flash, while not free as in libre, are freely
> > > available
> > > and accessible, and I find very little use to a student learning
> > > Linux
> > > to see the underlying code of Flash or Digital Think.
> > 
> > What if they want to set up thier own courseware? What if they want
> to
> > add on thier own content for thier classroom? 
> 
> 
> >What if they want to make
> > a new viewer for visually impaired students based on the flash?
> 
> slight tangent here, this is my area of expertise,  Red Hat and/or
> any
> institution has a MANDITORY requirement to provide the course
> material in
> alternative format that can be used by a disabled student.
> 
> 
> Open source comes out ahead here as the accessibility features are
> readily
> avaliable and can be easily adapted because of the open source
> format,
> in some (read M$) proprietary formats the schools are required to
> absorb
> expensive adaptations to comply with the law, this has restricted
> access
> to education to many people with disabilities as institutions will
> use any
> pretext that is legal to exclude people with disabilities to avoid
> the
> high cost of adaptive software (such as JAWS)

That is discrimination. Do you know of any cases of this? Can you
please add a wiki page conserning this subject to the www.FSEDU.org
wiki page?

thanks,
mike

=====
James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software
http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com


_______________________________________________
Subscription and Archive: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/open-source-now-list/
-
For K12OS technical help join K12OSN:
<https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn>