The paper discusses the relation between accessibility and multimodality of learning objects. I present a framework, rooted in linguistics, that supports a clear distinction betwee...
This paper introduces the concept of accessibility from the field of transportation planning and adopts it within the context of Information Retrieval (IR). An analogy is drawn bet...
Recent surveys have shown that the majority of websites are not accessible. Despite legal obligations and the importance of the internet for disabled people, most websites fail to...
Recently, there has been an increased awareness in the general public, in government and in business that people with disabilities and older people have distinct needs and prefere...
Helen Petrie, Christopher Power, Ray Adams, Fausti...
Abstract. Accessibility is becoming more and more relevant in Information technologies, such as the Web and software applications, particularly due to the push on legislation to ma...
As more and more information is available on the web, it is a problem that many web resources are not accessible, i.e., are not usable for users with special needs. For example, f...
Although they play an important role in any assessment procedure, web accessibility metrics are not yet well developed and studied. In addition, most metrics are geared towards co...
In this paper, I describe some of the challenges and opportunities presented when attempting to be proactive in improving the accessibility of the University of North Carolina at ...
Abstract. This paper extends previous studies that investigated the accessibility of different web sites of specific content, to an analysis of the whole web of a specific country ...
Abstract. The paper claims that processes for monitoring, assessing and ensuring appropriate levels of accessibility and usability have to be adopted by web development and mainten...