Automatically producing accessible learning objects

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 3-16

  Di Iorio, Angelo ^a   Feliziani, Antonio Angelo ^a   Mirri, Silvia ^a   Salomoni, Paola ^a   Vitali, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Authoring; Content creation; Standards compliance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845318541     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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