title: Scaffolding the design of accessible eLearning content: a user-centered approach and cognitive perspective.
abstract: There exist various guidelines for facilitating the design, preparation, and deployment of accessible eLearning applications and contents. However, such guidelines prevalently address accessibility in a rather technical sense, without giving sufficient consideration to the cognitive aspects and issues related to the use of eLearning materials by learners with disabilities. In this paper we describe how a user-centered design process was applied to develop a method and set of guidelines for didactical experts to scaffold their creation of accessible eLearning content, based on a more sound approach to accessibility. The paper also discusses possible design solutions for tools supporting eLearning content authors in the adoption and application of the proposed approach.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica "A. Ruberti", Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Via Ariosto 25, 00185, Roma, Italy, catarci@dis.uniroma1.it
authors.forename: Tiziana
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Catarci
authors.forename: Loredana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: De Giovanni
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gabrielli
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kimani
authors.forename: Valeria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Mirabella
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001292:Attitude to Computers; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014584:User-Computer Interface