Title :
Accessibility guidelines for a distance education platform
Author :
Lucila Maria Costi Santarosa;D?bora Conforto
Author_Institution :
Special Education Informatics Center (NIEE), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
Abstract :
This article discusses the deployment of the accessibility guidelines proposed by the World Wide Web Consortium, an international community that develops standards in order to guarantee Web growth. The Accessible Information and Communication Technologies Teacher Training Course was used as research background because, while it shows the accessibility and usability difficulties of Web systems for disabled teachers, it serves as a corpus for analysis and manual and automatic validation for the development of an accessible platform. By conducting a detailed analysis of accessibility guideline application strategies, we state that projects that care about human diversity are viable and possible, and can increase the density of the research network that has the goal of expanding the Web, as well as the guarantee of Web access and Web use by everyone, regardless of disability.
Keywords :
"Keyboards","Navigation"
Conference_Titel :
Computers in Education (SIIE), 2015 International Symposium on
DOI :
10.1109/SIIE.2015.7451677