Acessibilidade web em Ambiente Virtual de Aprendizagem: um estudo de caso na UNIPAMPA

Abstract

Accessibility is a requirement for ensuring inclusive educational environments. This is confirmed by the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Brazilian Decree 6.949/2009). E-learning environments, which have been used in Universities to support face-to-face and distance learning activities, shall themselves be accessible and promote the accessibility of the content they organize. To do so they shall also observe Universal Design and offer compatibility to assistive technologies, for instance, by compliance to accessibility recommendations. In this context, this work proposes improvements regarding accessibility to UNIPAMPA elearning environment, through recommendations to IT professionals and professors, who are in charge of publishing materials. To develop this research, we conducted a Case Study at UNIPAMPA to explore, through an online survey, what teachers from the University know about accessibility and what they do to promote it when publishing educational materials at MOODLE. Furthermore, web pages of the institutional e-learning environment were reviewed using as reference the e-Gov Brazilian Model of Accessibility (e-MAG 3.0). We discovered that professors do not know very well how to do to promote accessibility to people with disabilities in the materials they produce. The review on the MOODLE environment helped us to identify non-conformities with the e-MAG 3.0. As a result of this work, we propose recommendations with the aim at supporting teachers in publishing accessible educational materials and to guide the maintenance of an accessible MOODLE at UNIPAMPA.