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Adapting learning environments with AccessForAll

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Greg Gay,

Silvia Mirri,

Marco Roccetti,

Paola SalomoniAuthors Info & Claims

W4A '09: Proceedings of the 2009 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibililty (W4A)

Pages 90 - 91

https://doi.org/10.1145/1535654.1535676

Published: 20 April 2009 Publication History

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ATutor is an Open Source Web-based learning environment that has accessibility as a guiding development principle. From its beginning, ATutor was created to fill a need for an accessible network-based Learning Management System (LMS) [2] [3].

Continuing with its attention to accessibility, ATutor adds the first implementation of the ISO FDIS 24751 [4] accessibility standards.

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Charter for IMS AccessForAll 2.0 http://www.imsglobal.org/getpdf.cfm?docname=accv2charter.pdf (Jan 2009).

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Gay, G, Harrison, L., Richards, J., and Treviranus, J. Courseware Accessibility Study (1999) http://www.atutor.ca/research/crseval/crseval.html.

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Gay, G. Treviranus, J., and Landon, B., (2000) Inclusion in and Electronic Classroom http://www.atutor.ca/research/access_study/inclusion.html.

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ISO FDIS 24571 Accessibility Standards http://www.iso.org/iso/search.htm?qt=24751&searchSubmit=Search&sort=rel&type=simple&published=on (Dec 2008).

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IMS AccessForAll Metadata Specifications http://www.imsglobal.org/accessibility/index.html (Dec 2008).

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IMS Content Packaging Specification http://www.imsglobal.org/content/packaging/index.html (Dec 2008).

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Mirri, S., Gay, G., Roccetti, M., Salomoni, P. (2009), Meeting learners' preferences: implementing content adaptability in e-learning, in Proceedings of New Learning Technologies 2009, Orlando, accepted for publication.

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W4A '09: Proceedings of the 2009 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibililty (W4A)

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DOI:10.1145/1535654

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IBM Research, Japan
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IBM Research, Japan

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