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Making an International Certificate Accessible

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2008)

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Digital Literacy is necessary for all in today’s information society. Is it possible to measure this? And is it possible to include accessibility in that measurement? The European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) is accepted as a measure of digital literacy with over seven million participants worldwide. ECDL is running in over 146 countries. This paper examines the work to make this international certificate accessible while maintaining the quality of the standard. Two specific projects are examined: one an international collaboration and the other a project undertaken with a community of people with visual impairments in remote locations in Ireland.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

    Denise Leahy & Dudley Dolan

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Klaus Miesenberger Joachim Klaus Wolfgang Zagler Arthur Karshmer

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Leahy, D., Dolan, D. (2008). Making an International Certificate Accessible. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W., Karshmer, A. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5105. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70540-6_196

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