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Accessibility Issues in Two Specifications for E-Learning Tests: IMS QTI 1.2 and IMS QTI 2.0

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The IMS Global Learning Consortium developed the QTI (Question and Test Interoperability) specification to allow the exchange of question and test data, and their corresponding result reports, between learning systems. QTI 1.2 had some accessibility issues, as the VISUAL project discovered when transforming QTI tests into accessible HTML and voice user interfaces. Some problems were due to an insufficient mechanism to specify alternative text, other problems were due to the ambiguity of the intent of certain interaction types. QTI 2.0 solved the issue of alternative text, but the ambiguity with regard to the intent of interaction types was not sufficiently addressed.

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  1. Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, B-3001 Heverlee, Leuven, Belgium

    Christophe Strobbe

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, Johannes Kepler Universität, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Studienzentrum fuer Sehgeschaedigte, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

    Joachim Klaus

  3. fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Institute integrated study, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, A 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang L. Zagler

  4. The Universal Math Access Lab, University of San Francisco, 281 Masonic San Francisco, 94117, CA, USA

    Arthur I. Karshmer

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Strobbe, C. (2006). Accessibility Issues in Two Specifications for E-Learning Tests: IMS QTI 1.2 and IMS QTI 2.0. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W.L., Karshmer, A.I. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4061. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11788713_81

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