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T1 Improving Accessibility in Online Education: Comparative Analysis of Attitudes of Blind and Deaf Students Toward an Adapted Learning Platform
A1 Batanero Ochaita, María Concepción
A1 Marcos Ortega, Luis de
A1 Rivera Galicia, Luis Felipe
A1 Holvikivi, Jaana
A1 Hilera González, José Ramón
A1 Otón Tortosa, Salvador
K1 Accessibility
K1 Accessible content
K1 Attitudinal test
K1 Blind
K1 Deaf
K1 Educational technology
K1 Learning platforms
K1 Economics
K1 Economía
K1 Sociology
K1 Sociología
AB People with different capacities, such as the deaf and blind, have problems accessing educational content due to lack of accessible technology. Accessibility and usability are closely related concepts that share the goals for a satisfactory user experience. Existing literature establishes a direct relation between accessibility and usability, and reports that there are problems with both in learning platforms, and moregenerally with most websites. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the accessibility and usability of alearning platform by interrogating its participants. Three groups of students with different capacities (blind,deaf and deaf-blind) used an accessible learning platform prototype to assess the accessibility and usability of the platform and its contents. This article presents a comparative study of the perception and attitude of blind and deaf students towards the use of a learning platform adapted to their personal needs. Results showed that their attitude to the adaptation was very positive but there were differences in the perception of the ease of use of the application and with the level of difficulty to access the learning content. This work contributes to the body of knowledge by showing the effects that adaptations have on learning contents for blind and deaf students in terms of accessibility and ease of use through the analysis of the perceptions of participants. Future work may consider increasing the sample of students, as well as developing and testing new technologies and approaches that address other forms of functional diversity
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/55403
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/55403
LA eng
NO 15 p.
DS MINDS@UW
RD 26-abr-2024