A Method to Evaluate Accessibility in E-learning Education Systems

Author

Batanero, Concha ; Karhu, Markku ; Holvikivi, Jaana ; Oton, Salvador ; Amado-Salvatierra, Hector R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Autom., UAH, Alcala de Henares, Spain

fYear

2014

fDate

7-10 July 2014

Firstpage

556

Lastpage

560

Abstract

This paper explores the relationship between accessible learning objects and accessible Web content. On the one hand it takes into consideration the standard ISO/IEC 24751 to describe the process of using an accessible on-line educational system, which takes into account the needs and preferences of the student and contains accessibility metadata of the learning objects. On the other hand it takes into consideration the standard ISO/IEC 40500 to describe the accessibility guidelines of the Web content underlying those concepts that can be applied to the learning objects. Based on the idea that a learning object is also a web content, a study has been carried out to discover the mandatory accessibility metadata that must necessarily be included into a learning object to meet accessibility levels A, AA and AAA.

Keywords

IEC standards; ISO standards; Internet; computer aided instruction; human computer interaction; meta data; A accessibility level; AA accessibility level; AAA accessibility level; ISO/IEC 24751 standard; ISO/IEC 40500 standard; Web content accessibility guidelines; accessible Web content; accessible learning objects; e-learning education systems; e-learning system accessibility evaluation; mandatory accessibility metadata; on-line educational system; Assistive technology; Electronic learning; Guidelines; IEC standards; ISO standards; accessibility; e-learning; education; guideline; learning object; standard;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2014 IEEE 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2014.163

Filename

6901539