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- Title
Accessibility assessment of assistive technology for the hearing impaired.
- Authors
Esmeraldo Áfio, Aline Cruz; de Carvalho, Aline Tomaz; Vieira de Caravalho, Luciana; Rocha da Silva, Andréa Soares; Freitag Pagliuca, Lorita Marlena
- Abstract
Objective: to assess the automatic accessibility of assistive technology in online courses for the hearing impaired. Method: evaluation study guided by the Assessment and Maintenance step proposed in the Model of Development of Digital Educational Material. The software Assessor and Simulator for the Accessibility of Sites (ASES) was used to analyze the online course "Education on Sexual and Reproductive Health: the use of condoms" according to the accessibility standards of national and international websites. Results: an error report generated by the program identified, in each didactic module, one error and two warnings related to two international principles and six warnings involved with six national recommendations. The warnings relevant to hearing-impaired people were corrected, and the course was considered accessible by automatic assessment. Conclusion: we concluded that the pages of the course were considered, by the software used, appropriate to the standards of web accessibility.
- Subjects
HEARING disorder diagnosis; ALTERNATIVE education evaluation; EDUCATION; INTERNET; MEDICAL care; ONLINE information services; PATIENT education; PATIENTS; HEALTH self-care; ASSISTIVE technology; SOFTWARE architecture; ACCESS to information
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2016, Vol 69, Issue 5, p781
- ISSN
0034-7167
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0034-7167.2016690503