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Evaluating the accessibility to disabled people of e-assessment tools
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posted on 2009-12-02, 16:21 authored by David Sloan, David WalkerE-assessment tools offer enormous potential for educational organisations to
support disabled students in a flexible, accessible way, while also helping to
meet legal obligations to avoid undue discrimination. However, tools need to
support authors in creating assessments without introducing accessibility
barriers. Information on the extent to which e-assessment tools support
accessible assessment authoring is scarce; and where information does exist,
this tends to be focused on the accessibility of the output, rather than the
quality of the authoring process. An accessibility evaluation methodology was
developed and used by the authors to review a popular e-assessment tool.
The review identified a number of accessibility issues with the software
interface and output. It also found issues that might limit the ability of authors
to create optimally accessible assessments, meaning a modified approach to
training and support is required, as well as improvements to the assessment
tool. Organisations evaluating e-assessment tools for accessibility therefore
need to seriously consider how effective these tools are in supporting
accessible authoring, rather than limiting attention to the accessibility of the
output of the tool.
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SLOAN, D. and WALKER, D., 2008. Evaluating the accessibility to disabled people of e-assessment tools. IN: Khandia, F. (ed.). 12th CAA International Computer Assisted Assessment Conference : Proceedings of the Conference on 8th and 9th July 2008 at Loughborough University. Loughborough : Loughborough University, pp. 295-308Publisher
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0953957276Language
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