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Copyright Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca Dec 2015

Abstract

The starting point to provide a university education-based custom environments online education to people with functional diversity must focus on ensuring the optimal accessibility to your web content and learning resources. At present, most of the universities now have virtual platforms of education, with an important weight for the correct development of their studies and for the optimization of learning of its students. On the other hand, the virtual environments pose a major access point to the possible enrolment in these university students with disabilities. This paper has two objectives. The first of them is to define which are the optimal conditions for web accessibility in the virtual platforms of education and the web sites of universities for people who have visual impairment or motor disabilities, according to international standards. The second objective of this work aims to deliver a brief approximation on the degree of accessibility of the web sites of the Spanish universities for students with these two disabilities. The work follows a descriptive design based on two elements of analysis. On the one hand, the review of studies of accessibility and functional diversity; and on the other hand, the analysis of web accessibility of the web sites of the 78 Spanish universities. It is concluded that there are difficulties of web accessibility and navigation in the virtual environments of the Spanish universities, a situation that, therefore, leads to limitations in the learning from the collective of students with disabilities.

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Title
UNA APROXIMACIÓN A LA REALIDAD DE LAS PLATAFORMAS VIRTUALES DE LAS UNIVERSIDADES ESPAÑOLAS: EL PRIMER RETO PARA UNA EDUCACIÓN PERSONALIZADA EN PERSONAS CON DISCAPACIDAD MOTÓRICA O VISUAL 1,2 / An approach to the reality of the virtual learning environments of Spanish universities: the first challenge for a personalized education for people with motor or visual disabilities/ Un rapprochement à la réalité des plates-formes virtuelles des universités espagnoles: le premier défi pour un enseignement personnalisé pour les personnes ayant un handicap moteur ou visuel
Author
Gómez-Calcerrada, Sonia Gutiérrez; Hernández, Eva Solera; González, Juan Manuel García
Pages
59-78
Publication year
2015
Publication date
Dec 2015
Publisher
Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
ISSN
2386-3919
e-ISSN
2386-3927
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Spanish
ProQuest document ID
1764649995
Copyright
Copyright Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca Dec 2015