Towards an Accessible UX for People with Disabilities in Open Educational Resources Websites

Navarrete, Rosa; Peñafiel, Myriam; Tenemaza, Maritzol; Luján-Mora, Sergio

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-19135-1_7

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“…For instance, the accessibility evaluation results by Iniesto and Rodrigo (2014) show a low degree of compliance of the analysed OER with the WCAG 2.0 accessibility guidelines. Navarrete et al (2019) also conclude that neither the OER website interface nor the educational resources are fully accessible.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Specifically, to assess the accessibility of OER, three different methods were used, as shown in Using manual evaluation method Questionnaires Avila Caruso & Ferlino, 2009;Mulwa et al, 2016;Navarrete & Luján-Mora, 2015a;Navarrete et al, 2019;Navarrete & Luján-Mora, 2018;Sanchez-Gordon & Luján-Mora, 2016 No assessment N/A Coughlan et al, 2016;Hejer et al, 2017;Iniesto and Rodrigo, 2018;Iniesto & Rodrigo, 2016;Iniesto et al, 2017;Iniesto et al, 2019;Kourbetis & Boukouras, 2014;Kourbetis et al, 2016;Morales and Benedi, 2017;Moreno et al, 2018;Navarrete et al, 2016;Politis et al, 2014;Sanchez-Gordon & Luján-Mora, 2015;Yalcinalp & Emiroglu, 2012;Zervas et al, 2014 aDesigner, used by Iniesto and Rodrigo (2014) and , aimed to simulate the use by people with visual disabilities in order to help the designer assess the extent to which a given content is accessible to users with that particular disability. Finally, manual assessment is mostly based on users' questionnaires (Avila Caruso & Ferlino, 2009;Mulwa et al, 2016;Navarrete et al, 2019;Navarrete & Luján-Mora, 2015a;Navarrete & Luján-Mora, 2018;Sanchez-Gordon & Luján-Mora, 2016). In these cases, the purpose of the questionnaire is to obtain a qualitative analysis to appreciate the users' experience of the process of using a given OER (Navarrete et al, 2019), based on questions like 'Is it easy to learn how to use the website?'…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Finally, manual assessment is mostly based on users' questionnaires (Avila Caruso & Ferlino, 2009;Mulwa et al, 2016;Navarrete et al, 2019;Navarrete & Luján-Mora, 2015a;Navarrete & Luján-Mora, 2018;Sanchez-Gordon & Luján-Mora, 2016). In these cases, the purpose of the questionnaire is to obtain a qualitative analysis to appreciate the users' experience of the process of using a given OER (Navarrete et al, 2019), based on questions like 'Is it easy to learn how to use the website?' or 'Can the user resolve the tasks on the website without unnecessary effort?'…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, Iniesto, McAndrew, Minocha, and Coughlan (2017) stated that few Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are fully accessible for disabled students. Undeniably, not enough research is being conducted to support inclusive and equitable learning using OER (Navarrete, Peñafiel, Tenemaza, & Luján-Mora, 2019). Specifically, to our knowledge, only one conference paper has conducted a systematic literature review to investigate the actual accessibility of OER for disabled learners (Moreno, Caro, & Cabedo, 2018), providing only information about the trends of OER and accessibility without summarising and discussing findings related to accessible learning within OER and OEP.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Accessibility within open educational resources and practices for disabled learners: a systematic literature review

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The number of disabled students is rapidly increasing worldwide, but many schools and universities have failed to keep up with their learning needs. Consequently, large numbers of disabled students are dropping out of school or university. Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) contain several relevant features, including the possibility of reusing and remixing, which have led researchers to consider using OER and OEP to facilitate meeting the needs of disabled and functional-diverse students in order to increase their accessibility and e-inclusion capabilities in educational settings. The very limited research to date, however, has provided a limited holistic understanding of accessibility within OER and OEP in order to aid researchers in pursuing future directions in this field. Therefore, this paper systematically reviewed 31 papers to provide insights about functional diversity within OER and OEP. The results obtained highlighted that accessibility is still in its infancy within OER and that researchers should focus more on considering the four accessibility principlesperceivable, operable, understandable and robustwhen providing OER. Additionally, while several researchers have focused on several issues related to accessibility within OER, limited focus has been given to assistive technologies using OER. Finally, this paper provides several recommendations to increase accessibility within OER and help design more accessible OER for students with functional diversity.

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Section: Assessment Methodologies Usedmentioning

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“…In another study [31], the authors propose an architectural design that improves the accessibility and usability of an OER Website through a user's disability profile. The components of the design are accessibility, usability, information architecture, personalization of the OER environment, and adaptation of resources; the authors apply WCAG 2.1 and consider control with mouse and keyboard.…”

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Model for Profiling Users With Disabilities on e-Learning Platforms

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There are millions of people worldwide using e-Learning platforms. However, people with disabilities still have problems using these platforms due to a lack of accessibility. In the present study, a model for the generation of the profiles of users with disabilities is proposed. This model enables e-Learning platforms to have information on users' accessibility needs as input for automated adaptation of its interfaces. This would enable equal access for all learners with and without disabilities. In this context, different studies related to the profiling of users on e-Learning platforms were identified and analyzed. The model presented considers the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) that can be implemented in the interfaces of the e-Learning platforms and the metadata that represent the accessibility needs of users based on Schema.org. The researchers used Unified Modelling Language diagrams to design the model and define a description of the interaction between users, user interfaces, WCAG, Schema.org., and the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) profile generated. The testing of the prototype was carried out using WAVE and ARC Toolkit. The validation with the support of forty-four users was conducted using the System Usability Scale (SUS). The most outstanding results of this study are the identification of WCAG success criteria that are automatically implementable, the inclusion of two special categories for combined accessibility needs related to the elderly and linguistics, and the automatic generation of the profile as an XML file containing the metadata needed to enable the adaptation of e-Learning platform interfaces.

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Model for Generation of Profiles for Persons with Disabilities in e-Learning Environments

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Towards an Accessible UX for People with Disabilities in Open Educational Resources Websites

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

Accessibility within open educational resources and practices for disabled learners: a systematic literature review

Accessibility within open educational resources and practices for disabled learners: a systematic literature review

Model for Profiling Users With Disabilities on e-Learning Platforms

Model for Generation of Profiles for Persons with Disabilities in e-Learning Environments

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