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Tiziana Catarci1, Loredana De Giovanni, Silvia Gabrielli
1Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica "A. Ruberti", Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Via Ariosto 25, 00185, Roma, Italy, catarci@dis.uniroma1.it
Abstract:
There exist various guidelines for facilitating the design, preparation, and deployment of accessible eLearning applications and contents. However, such guidelines prevalently address accessibility in a rather technical sense, without giving sufficient consideration to the cognitive aspects and issues related to the use of eLearning materials by learners with disabilities. In this paper we describe how a user-centered design process was applied to develop a method and set of guidelines for didactical experts to scaffold their creation of accessible eLearning content, based on a more sound approach to accessibility. The paper also discusses possible design solutions for tools supporting eLearning content authors in the adoption and application of the proposed approach.
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