Remote and local delivery of cisco education for the vision-impaired

Authors:
Helen Armstrong;Iain Murray
Affiliations:
Curtin University of Technology;Curtin University of Technology
Venue:
Proceedings of the 12th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Vision-impaired students face tremendous obstacles in their quest to access learning materials delivered in web-based and other electronic formats. The predominance of visual prompts, use of flash and animation and the inability of screen reading applications to interpret images all contribute to make much of the current e-learning materials associated with computing studies inaccessible by blind or vision-impaired students. This paper describes a university research project undertaken to improve the accessibility of Cisco e-learning materials for vision-impaired computing students.allThe network architecture which supports the delivery of the Cisco courses to both local and remote vision-impaired students is also presented.