E-learning accessibility for the deaf and hard of hearing - Practical examples and experiences

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6389 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 203-213

  Debevc, Matjaž ^a   Kosec, Primož ^a   Holzinger, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

accessibility; deaf and hard of hearing; E learning; human computer interaction; usability; user interfaces; video streaming

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; ACCESSIBILITY GUIDELINES; AUTOMATED VIDEO; DEGREE OF SATISFACTION; DRIVING LICENSE; E-LEARNING MATERIALS; EASE OF USE; ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT; GOOD PRACTICES; HARD OF HEARINGS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; POSITIVE ATTITUDE; RECORDING SYSTEMS; SIGN LANGUAGE; USABILITY;

ACOUSTIC STREAMING; AUDITION; E-LEARNING; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; RECORDING INSTRUMENTS; USABILITY ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES; VIDEO RECORDING; VIDEO STREAMING; VIDEOTEX;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 78649942859     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16607-5_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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