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Xerte is an award-winning suite of browser-based tools that allow anyone with a web browser to create interactive learning materials quickly and easily. Content can be delivered to all devices using standards compliant HTML5 and a responsive template can deliver material to both small screens and large desktop computers. Xerte provides a suite of tools for creating rich, accessible interactive content. For many educators, effectively exploiting technology in their teaching requires overcoming a number of technical barriers. Xerte provides simple online tools that anyone can use to create effective interactive materials easily. Xerte is free and open-source software developed by a wonderful community. Xerte is a powerful suite of productivity tools for rapid elearning development. Content is assembled using a forms to populate a suite of templates. Authoring is collaborative, allowing subject matter experts, media specialists and developers to work together in the creation of rich and highly accessible interactive learning resources. Ease of use has always been at the heart of Xerte. We aim to provide intuitive tools that allow rapid content creation without sacrificing the flexibility that more advanced users demand. Developers have all the tools they need to create sophisticated interactivity and new forms of learning. Xerte produces standards-compliant HTML5 that runs on all devices running a modern web-browser, allowing learning to access content whenever and wherever they choose. We have buit in the very best support for accessible and inclusive content - our content delivery platform is considered to be one of the best examples of accessible design for online learning and is considered a benchmark for the industry. Throughout the development of Xerte we have partnered with accessibility and inclusion specialists and worked directly with users with a variety of special needs to test that the features we have implemented work as well as they possibly can do. We take the view that highly accessible content is highly usable for everybody and accessible design benefits all of our users.