Title :
Acessibility and Usability of Virtual Learning Environments
Abstract :
This paper briefly discusses the value of the use of different approaches and learning technologies to improve accessibility. It considers the role of assistive technology in improving the accessibility of advanced learning technologies and illustrates this by the example of subtitles, including new proposals to personalise them and represent emotional and other contextual features of speech.
Keywords :
Collision mitigation; Content management; Education; Electronic learning; Environmental management; Graphics; Least squares approximation; Navigation; Open source software; Usability; accessibility; advanced learning technologies; assistive technology; subtitles;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2008. ICALT '08. Eighth IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Santander, Cantabria, Spain
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3167-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2008.155