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Accessibility Recommendations for Open Educational Resources for People with Learning Disabilities

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In order to contribute to the increasing inclusion of people who have been for a long time out of society, it is possible to construct accessible didactic material for specific audiences, such as for people with learning disabilities, or other barriers to the full achievement of their learning processes, for instance, elderly, deaf, and visually impaired people. This paper aims to contribute to the area of accessibility by presenting a set of recommendations for authors of Open Educational Resources that are not necessarily specialists in ICT, in order to help the process of providing more accessibility for people with learning disabilities.

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Acknowledgment

This work was supported by the ERANET-LAC project which has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme. Project Smart Ecosystem for Learning and Inclusion – ERANet17/ICT-0076SELI. The work was also supported by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de nível superior - Brazil (CAPES) - Programa de Excelência - Proex 1133/2019 and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) 2018/04085-4.

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  1. Computing and Informatics Department, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil

    Valéria Farinazzo Martins, Maria Amelia Eliseo & Ismar Frango Silveira

  2. Developmental Disorders, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil

    Valéria Farinazzo Martins & Cibelle Amato

  3. Faculty of Social Science, Pedagogical University of Cracow, Cracow, Poland

    Łukasz Tomczyk

  4. School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

    Solomon Sunday Oyelere

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  2. College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

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  3. FEUP, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

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Martins, V.F., Amato, C., Tomczyk, Ł., Oyelere, S.S., Eliseo, M.A., Silveira, I.F. (2020). Accessibility Recommendations for Open Educational Resources for People with Learning Disabilities. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S., Orovic, I., Moreira, F. (eds) Trends and Innovations in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1161. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45697-9_38

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