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Automatically producing IMS AccessForAll Metadata

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Matteo Boni,

Sara Cenni,

Silvia Mirri,

Ludovico Antonio Muratori,

Paola SalomoniAuthors Info & Claims

W4A '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international cross-disciplinary workshop on Web accessibility (W4A): Building the mobile web: rediscovering accessibility?

Pages 92 - 97

https://doi.org/10.1145/1133219.1133237

Published: 22 May 2006 Publication History

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Accessible e-learning is becoming a key issue in ensuring a complete inclusion of people with disabilities within the knowledge society. Many efforts have been done to include accessibility information in e-learning metadata and the major result consists in the IMS AccessForAll Metadata definition. Unfortunately the complex behavior managed by this standard could be perceived by authors as a new boring and difficult activity enforcing the idea that the production of accessible Learning Objects (LOs) is too complex to be accomplished. This paper presents a novel component of an authoring and producing software architecture, designed and implemented to automatically create the IMS AccessForAll Metadata description of an accessible LO.

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W4A '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international cross-disciplinary workshop on Web accessibility (W4A): Building the mobile web: rediscovering accessibility?

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153 pages

ISBN:159593281X

DOI:10.1145/1133219

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University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

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Navarrete RLuján-Mora S(2017)Bridging the accessibility gap in Open Educational ResourcesUniversal Access in the Information Society10.1007/s10209-017-0529-917:4(755-774)Online publication date: 7-Mar-2017
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