Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have great potential to provide learning
opportunities for people around the world. However, to reach their full potential, MOOCs …

Existing assistive technologies (AT) often fail to support the unique needs of blind and
visually impaired (BVI) people. Thus, BVI people have become domain experts in …

Based on a 3-year ethnographical study, this paper discusses the prolonged use of
computer-mediated communication (CMC) tools by approximately 400 older people in an …

Demographic trends and increasing support costs means that good design for older and
disabled people is an economic necessity, as well as a moral imperative. Alan Newell has …

Higher and further education providers are facing the challenge of supporting the interaction
needs of an increasing number of students who feature accessibility preferences to use both …

Subtitles can help improve the understanding of media content. People enable subtitles
based on individual characteristics (eg, language or hearing ability), viewing environment …

This chapter presents accessibility requirements that need to be considered in the design,
implementation and evaluation of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to ensure they …

In this paper, we propose a three-layer architecture to extend the Massive Open Online
Courses (MOOCs) platform Open edX to enhance course content accessibility for users with …

In postsecondary education, technology and online resources have become a pervasive
component of learning, but they are not always accessible. For students with intellectual …

Adaptive user interfaces offer great potential for improving the accessibility of interactive
systems. At the same time, adaptations can cause usability problems, including …