Web Accessibility: Does It Have a Role in Delivering Distance Education?
Web Accessibility: Does It Have a Role in Delivering Distance Education?
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2008
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Wijayaratne, Anusha
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Commonwealth of Learning (COL)
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PCF5: Cross-Cutting Theme // Web accessibility is a hot topic in international forums of professionals who are dealing with
WWW to communicate with their clientele as it is very vital in facilitating various ways that
users access information. Distance educationists are vastly using the Web channel in
delivering their courses and support services. Therefore, Web accessibility is very important
for distance educationists, particularly after they have promised to provide equal educational
opportunities for ALL. However, when considering the findings of the study conducted to
identify the current status of accessibility of Open University Websites of Commonwealth
countries it is obvious that there is a long delay in applying the accessibility techniques in
designing the Websites in the distance education sector. Paper ID 159
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Distance Education,
Online Learning,
Access
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Pan-Commonwealth