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In recent years the issue of accessibility of digital resources has been increasingly studied by the world of research, training, associations and law-makers. If educational software is built without keeping in mind the principles of Design for all, might be considered a new obstacle to learning and an occasion to highlight the limits and not the potential of disabled people. Starting from this, we have carried out a survey among more than four thousand (italian and foreign) educational softwares available on our Educational Software Documentation Service. The result - as one could predict - shows that there are very few software products that can be used for educational purposes which completely satisfy the main accessibility criteria.
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Caruso, G.P., Ferlino, L. (2009). Accessibility of Educational Software: A Problem Still to Be Solved. In: Holzinger, A., Miesenberger, K. (eds) HCI and Usability for e-Inclusion. USAB 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5889. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10308-7_13
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