Comparison of authoring tools based on accessibility evaluations
Abstract
Accessibility is an element that has allowed people who could not acquire certain knowledge to do so. One possibility is the creation of accessible digital educational resources that are used to support teaching and learning processes. Various authoring tools have been created in order to facilitate the generation of contents, books, and activities with the idea for these means to reach many people, regardless of their conditions. Therefore, an important aspect that must be taken into account, is that the resources that are created from these tools comply with accessibility features. The objective of this article is to present the results of a comparative analysis among four authoring tools, based on accessibility evaluations that were carried out in the educational resources that were created in each of them, which allowed identifying what tools have a greater potential to create resources with accessible characteristics.
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