What is Accessibility

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Accessibility is a basic characteristic of the built environment, is the condition that makes possible to arrive, entry, exit and use houses, shops, theatres, parks and work places (European Union, 1996) and it allows people to participate in the social and economic activities for which they have been designed. It follows that, where there is a lack of accessibility, for example, with physical barriers, that people can suffer some degree of marginalization and, logically, a loss of quality of life with respect to others who do not suffer this lack, being worst for disabled persons (European Union, 1996). Learn more in: The Reality of Accessibility in the Public Health Systems

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Accessibility is a basic characteristic of the built environment, is the condition that makes possible to arrive, entry, exit and use houses, shops, theatres, parks and work places (European Union, 1996 AU46: The in-text citation "European Union, 1996" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ) and it allows people to participate in the social and economic activities for which they have been designed. It follows that, where there is a lack of accessibility, for example, with physical barriers, that people can suffer some degree of marginalization and, logically, a loss of quality of life with respect to others who do not suffer this lack, being worst for disabled persons (European Union, 1996 AU47: The in-text citation "European Union, 1996" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ). Learn more in: The Reality of Accessibility in the Public Health Systems

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The quality of places that are easily reached or entered by any person, even if the person has reduced mobility. Learn more in: From Macro to Micro: Two Approaches to Study Urban Mobility in a Brazilian Municipality

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Ensured the idea of accessing cloud services, data, and tools anytime anywhere. Learn more in: Cloud Computing Security Issues of Sensitive Data

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It is the state of each user to have access to any information at any time. Learn more in: Accessibility for Everyone in Health Communication Mobile Application Usage

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The design of information systems such that they can be used by everyone, regardless of their ability or disability. Learn more in: A Disability-Aware Mentality to Information Systems Design and Development

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Any product, service, technology or environment is accessible and available to everyone, including individuals/learners with special needs. Learn more in: Universal Design Principles and Technology-Supported Learning in the Digital Era: Assistive Technologies in Inclusive Learning

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The user’s ability to use products or services, despite their age, disabilities, or special needs, among other human conditions. Learn more in: Co-Creating an Integrative Framework to Enhance the Museum Experience of Blind and Visually Impaired Visitors

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Ensuring access course materials to all learners. Learn more in: UDL in Action: Implementing Strategies in a Large Online Course

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In the learning object sense, ensuring that all information is versioned in multi-perceptual ways for the broadest available human use (for example, image information is made available in text format, which is machine/screen reader- and human-readable). Learn more in: “Conceptual Reverse Engineering” of Online Learning Objects and Sequences for Practical Applications

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The theory that all students are able to read and interact with a given text so as to be able to understand a given and/or participate in the learning process. Learn more in: Graphic Novels and STEAM: Strategies and Texts for Utilization in STEAM Education – Graphic Novels and STEAM

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The design of information systems such that they can be used by everyone, regardless of their ability or disability. Learn more in: Towards Disability-Aware Social Media-Enriched Virtual Learning Environments

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People, who have difficulties or limitations in mobility, in the communication or the understanding, can easily reach a place, object or service. Learn more in: Religious Tourism and Accessibility: Cathedrals of Palma and Barcelona

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The ability for a tool to be utilized or accessed by everyone, or the ability for everyone to be able to participate in a program or meeting. Learn more in: Where Do I Belong?: Creating Virtual Spaces for Student Engagement

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The possibility for a product to be used by the largest possible number of people, regardless of their technical or physical abilities. Learn more in: In-TIC for Mobile Devices: Support System for Communication with Mobile Devices for the Disabled

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Information and assignments that are available and capable of being used and understood. Learn more in: Three Octobers: Motherhood and Pandemic Pedagogy

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Activities and resources designed with disability and accommodations in mind. Learn more in: Innovative Instructional Methods Integrating 21st-Century Competencies in Mathematics Education: Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Creativity

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refers to the situation where the people have access to some Information and Communications services. Learn more in: Mobiles for Development: The Case of M-Banking

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Accessibility is a subfield of human-computer interaction and deals with users with deficiencies. These deficiencies mostly lie in the perception capabilities. For example, users who cannot see or hear as well as other require special consideration during the implementation of user interfaces. Learn more in: Automatic Quality Assessment for Internet Pages

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Extend to which a person can access and use an object, reach a place, or obtain a service. Learn more in: Striving for Inclusion in E-Learning and E-Health

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The concept used to describe the degree to which practices and environments are able to be understood and utilized by people of differing abilities. Learn more in: Equitable Means Accessible: Using Universal Design for Learning and Student Development Theory to Inform Online Pedagogy

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Knowing that the desired goal is reached without any obstacle. Learn more in: University Instructors' Views on Distance Medical Education Activities

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Making system resources available to a wider user community regardless of their geographical locations or the physical capabilities of their access devices. Learn more in: Taxonomy of Grid Systems

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Accessibility describes the extent to which persons with special needs or people who use assistive technologies can use a product, like for example software. Learn more in: Application of Direct and Indirect Human-Centered Design Techniques With Dyslexic Users

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Means of ensuring that people with visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological difficulties can access electronic information, software applications, Internet, and so forth. Learn more in: Educational Accessibility to Technology

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The spatial and temporal effort required to reach a place. Accessibility can vary with changes in speeds, forms of mobility (car, bicycle, on foot) and landscape (e.g., slopes, mountains) and can be graphically depicted as catchment areas using Geographical Information Systems. Learn more in: Food Retail in the Rural Periphery Using the Example of Germany: Identifying Success Factors

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The extent to which a product or service is available to all people. Learn more in: Instructional Design and Online Standards

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The ability to access. Often tied to people with disabilities (e.g., total blindness), accessibility thrives to break the barriers to information access. We follow the strict sense of accessibility by embracing any situation where the ability to access information can be disrupted by device or even surrounding environment constraints. Learn more in: A Service Oriented Ontological Framework for the Semantic Validation of Web Accessibility

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Refers to providing courses, programs, services, and activities that are accessible to all learners. Learn more in: Arguing for Proactivity: Talking Points for Owning Accessibility in Online Writing Instruction

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The ability to be present in a space and meaningfully engage in the space as it is intended to be used. Learn more in: Beyond Inclusion: Meaningfully Engaging Visitors With Disabilities

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Health facilities, goods, and services accessible to everyone, within the jurisdiction of the state party. Learn more in: The Importance of Information and Communication Technologies in Establishing Healthcare Services with a Universal Coverage

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Designing technology so that is suitable for all intended users, regardless of any physical, sensory or cognitive impairment. Learn more in: Human Factors for Business Mobile Systems

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The degree to which a system is usable by as many people as possible without modification and is characterized in terms of the ability of users to have physical access to the system, the nature of users’ interface with the system, and the ability to physically retrieve potentially relevant information. Learn more in: Information Availability

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How physically accessible a city is to tourists, regardless of any disability they may have. Learn more in: European Capital of Smart Tourism: An Initiative to Promote the Tourism Industry

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The ability to fully participate in a course in regards to having access to the classroom, building, course materials, and course content. Learn more in: Meeting the Needs of Students With Disabilities in Online Learning Environments

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The level to which as people as possible have access to a product, device, service, or environment according to their necessity. Learn more in: Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) Technologies for Accessibility and Marketing in the Tourism Industry

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Ensuring access course materials to all learners. Learn more in: Establishing Considerations for Universal Design for Learning and Accessibility in Online Courses

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Enables a person with a disability to be afforded the opportunity to acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same services as a person without a disability in an equally effective and equally integrated manner, with substantially equivalent ease of use (Section 508, 1998). Learn more in: Understanding User Experience

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Requirement that characterizes projects, objects, device, services, settings, easily usable by every kind of user. In particular, it refers to the possibility for an individual with motorial, perceptive, and/or psychical disability to approach public services and cultural initiatives in conditions of safety and independence, in order to remove the so-called “barriers”, both architectural and perceptive, that represent the obstacles for an equal public dimension, that respects disabilities. Learn more in: Exhibit Design for Architecture: A Non-Digital Method for the Inclusive Communication of an Architecture

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The state of being able to be accessed and usable. Learn more in: Using a Diversity and Inclusion Approach in Designing Learning for All (in Full Human Dimensionality)

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“Ability to access” and benefit from some system or entity. The concept focuses on enabling access for people with disabilities, or special needs. Learn more in: Intelligence Applied to Smart Cities Through Architecture and Urbanism: Reflections on Multiple and Artificial Intelligences

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The extent to which an intervention can be used and understood by intended participants. Learn more in: Supporting Children and Families During the Kindergarten Transition: Connection-Focused Home Visiting

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the property of a designed artifact to be usable, manipulable and undestandable by all people regardless temporal or permanent injuries or disabilities. Learn more in: E-Business and Web Accessibility

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A facility that is easy to reach or use. Learn more in: MotherCare App for Expectant Mothers in Interior Parts of Pakistan

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Conditions universally designed that enable everybody to fully participate in activities. Learn more in: Smart and Accessible Cities?: Not Always – The Case for Accessible Tourism Initiatives in Buenos Aries and Sydney

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A set of features associated to a website which facilitates its use to all potential users whether or not they are disabled. Learn more in: EAGLE_Index: Enhancement of an Accountability Guide for Learning E-Government

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Accessibility to health care is a fundamental pillar of health policies and consists of the adjustment between the needs of users and the capacity of the health system to meet those needs, focusing on the process of seeking health services. Learn more in: Using Digital Tools to Improve Policy Making and Citizens' Decisions in Healthcare

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Capacity for users to easily access and comprehend any kind of content. Learn more in: Variable Fonts From Pioneer Perspectives

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A legal standard to ensure that digital learning objects are presented in multi-sensory multi-perceptual ways (visual, auditory; textual, auditory; visual, textual; visual, symbolic; and other combinations). Learn more in: Exploring the Common Structures and Sequences of Real-World Online Learning Modules

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The extent that products, devices, services, or environments are available to as many people as possible. Learn more in: Intellectual Disability, Identity, and the Internet

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The practice of making products and services, spaces, information, and processes usable by as many people as possible. Learn more in: Accessibility to Spa Experiences

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Service accessibility considers how easily disabled persons can use the service. Learn more in: A Business Perspective on Non-Functional Properties for Services

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Applied to the use of objects and technologies, and especially in relation to certain groups of people with functional difficulties, it means the benefits of interaction with the environment or other people. Accessibility enables people to participate in social activities for which designed the built environment. Learn more in: CommunicaME: A New Proposal for Facilitating Communication Using NFC

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Does the game allow for a player of any skill level to take part? Does the game scale in difficulty with the players increasing skills and abilities? Learn more in: Making Exergames Appealing: An Assessment of Commercial Exergames

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Meeting legal requirements for usability by those with disabilities in the senses such as sight, hearing, mobility, and others. Learn more in: Staying Legal and Ethical in Global E-Learning Course and Training Developments: An Exploration

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Locating objects, access to them and get them easily from a remote location. Learn more in: E-Learning: Psycho-Pedagogical Utility, Usability and Accessibility Criteria from a Learner Centred Perspective

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The quality of being easy to use or get information from. Learn more in: Use of Mobile Phones by Individuals with Visual Impairments

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As defined within Section 508, accessibility is achieved when individuals with disabilities can access and use information technology in ways comparable to those available to people without disabilities. A narrower, operational definition conceptualizes accessibility in terms of conformance to certain accessibility criteria such as the web content accessibility guidelines or the access board standards . Learn more in: Accessibility of Online Library Information for People with Disabilities

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Refers to a consumer’s entrance point into the luxury product category, introducing four levels – inaccessible, intermediate, accessible, and mass accessible. Accessibility to luxury goods can vary based on the consumer’s points of reference. Learn more in: Understanding the Luxury Brand Consumer: A Proposed Conceptual Framework

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Usability of a product, service, environment, or facility by people with the widest range of capabilities. Learn more in: Specification of the Context of Use for the Development of Web-Based Applications

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The guarantee that any resource, by any means, is able to be reached or acquired by everybody, with or without disability. Learn more in: Telegerontology®: A New Technological Resource for Elderly Support

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In this context it means to give all citizens access to governmental information and processes Learn more in: Enhancing Accessibility to E-Government Processes

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Proactive approach applying principles of universal design in order to reduce barriers for people with disabilities so they may participate more fully in everyday functions to which they have a right. Learn more in: Strategies for Efficient, Meaningful, and Inclusive Online Learning Environments: It's About Time

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A facility that is easy to reach or use. Learn more in: MotherCare App for Expectant Mothers in Interior Parts of Pakistan

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The degree to which devices and services are adapted for people with disabilities, so they can use, understand, and interact with their interfaces. Learn more in: Time for a Change: Designing a Mobile Application to Assist People With Intellectual Disabilities

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In general, it is about approachability. In particular in the context of the web developments (World Wide Web Consortium), it relates to the standards for making it inclusive, equitable for all; thereby removing the barriers, and ABIDE being exclusive to the haves. Learn more in: Are There Inclusive, Accessible Reference Tools for the Post-Pandemic Era?: Exploring Literacy Resources to Teach Social Justice Through Community Engagement

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The ease of attaining information and services offered through an e-government channel. Learn more in: Exploring Critical Success Factors Towards Adoption of M-Government Services in Tanzania: A Web Analytics Study

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Possibility of accessing a certain thing or facility to do so. Learn more in: Analysis of the Use of VR and Haptic Devices in the Teaching-Learning Process for Blind People

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The ability of a system or a piece of information to be accessible, that is, universally accessed by all kind of users. The term is normally focused on people with dissabilities. When refered to IT systems it is called e-Accesibility Learn more in: Open Educational Resources in E-Learning: Standards and Environment

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The possibility given by television to guarantee informative content, interaction ways, and navigation processes adequate to any user, no matter his or her capabilities and skills, hardware, and software configuration. In particular, accessibility addresses to people with disabilities (physical and intellectual), who are traditionally excluded by the Information Society. Learn more in: Accessibility, Usability, and Functionality in T-Government Services

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The design of apps, devices, materials, and environments that support and enable access to content and educational activities for all learners. Also applies to accommodating the individual learning needs of students, such as English language learners, students in rural communities, or students from economically disadvantaged homes. Learn more in: Technology and Digital Content: Promoting Learner-Centered Pedagogy

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Is defined as: the potential the user has to interact with a product or system. Learn more in: The Influence of Ageing on User Experience

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The ease in which people with disabilities, people from different geographic regions and people having different internet connections could access the websites. Learn more in: E-Relationship for Web-Based Tourism Promotion: A Review of Literature

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Ability of an object to be used regardless of the capacity and condition of a person. Learn more in: Inclusive Education Through Accessible Mobile Serious Games

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The concept includes the transport, the work of the microenterprises that provide services, the household appliances. In the case of the urbanism, the accessible buildings and infrastructure and the environment where people spend most of their time. Learn more in: Public Services and Evolution of Smart Cities: The Public Administration at the Service of the Citizenship

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People with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and they can contribute to the Web. Learn more in: Audience-Drive Design Approach for Web Systems

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refers to technology and behavior characteristics that help people with disabilities to use and access computers. Learn more in: Conceptualizing a Contextual Measurement for Digital Divide/s: Using an Integrated Narrative

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The availability of good health services within reasonable reach of those who need them and of opening hours, appointment systems and other aspects of service organization and delivery that allow people to obtain the services when they need them. Learn more in: Improving Patient Care With Telemedicine Technology

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Accessibility is a general term used to describe the degree to which a system is usable by as many people as possible. In this chapter, it means the course content materials and activities are accessible to students. Learn more in: Teaching Shakespeare Online in a Virtual Classroom

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The quality of being easily reached, universally grasped or appreciated. Learn more in: A Cross Reading of Landscape through Digital Landscape Models: The Case of Southern Garda

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As used here, includes: usability and possibility of independent physical access and movement; and perceptibility, referring to the way one perceives, understands the environment. Learn more in: Accessibility Improvement Interventions at Byzantine Monuments: Use of Technology for Facilitating Accessibility of Visitors With Sensory Disabilities

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A subdomain of usability; enables people with disabilities to experience success and satisfaction with software to a degree comparable to that experienced by people without disabilities. Learn more in: Usability Engineering of User-Centered Web Sites

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A term interchangeably used with ‘usability’ or even ‘availability’, but its core meaning is the extent to which a system can be used successfully and comfortably by users with disabilities or special needs. Learn more in: Human Factors and Innovation with Mobile Devices

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The extent to which a product (or robot) can be used without discrimination and equivalent user experience by the users in a specific context of use. Learn more in: CLARC: Robotic Platform to Assist the CGA Evaluation in Elderly Patients

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“The usability of a product, service, environment or facility by people with the widest range of capabilities” (ISO TS 16071). Learn more in: A Standard-Based Framework to Support Personalisation, Adaptation, and Interoperability in Inclusive Learning Scenarios

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non-discriminatory access to telecom services Learn more in: Shifting Focus from Access to Impact: Can Computers Alleviate Poverty?

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The ability to easily navigate and move about in the environment. Usually thought of in terms of the architecture of buildings, but since the recent advent of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), has been expanded to include the architecture of the World Wide Web and, per Section 508 (NCD, 2001), all electronic and information technology. Learn more in: Accessibility of Technology in Higher Education

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The ability to access. Often tied to people with disabilities (e.g., total blindness), accessibility thrives to break the barriers to information access. We follow the strict sense of accessibility by embracing any situation where the ability to access information can be disrupted by device or even surrounding environment constraints. Learn more in: Querying Web Accessibility Knowledge from Web Graphs

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The degree to which a system is usable by as many people as possible. Learn more in: Standardization in Learning Technology

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Access features embedded in materials for individuals with disabilities (e.g., text to speech, speech to text, read aloud feature, multiple font sizes, and closed captioning). Learn more in: Using Video Gameplay to Measure Achievement for Students with Disabilities: A New Perspective to Grading and Achievement Reporting

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Applied to people with disabilities, accessibility allows people to participate with activities and content, including being able to perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with technology. Learn more in: High-Quality Early Math: Learning and Teaching With Trajectories and Technologies

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Characteristic of the environment and the resources that allows a better interaction between people and places, things, or services, reducing existing barriers. Learn more in: The Potential of Distance Education for the Inclusion of Students in Higher Education

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It means the physical availability of health services to those who need them. Learn more in: The Healthcare Financing and Health Outcomes in Zambia

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The designing of course content in a manner that ensures that all students can learn the material and meet the course learning objectives. Learn more in: Using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) for Optimal Student Engagement in the Online College Classroom

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The concept of accessible design, the ability to access and to use services, spaces, or products. Learn more in: Aging Suit: An Accessible and Low-Cost Design Tool for the Gerontodesign

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The ease with which an e-government medium may provide information and services. Learn more in: Exploring Critical Success Factors Towards Adoption of M-Government Services in Tanzania: A Web Analytics Study

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Capable of being reached; capable of being read with comprehension; easily obtained; easy to get along with or talk to. Learn more in: Is It Accessible?: Ensuring Accessibility in Higher Education During a Global Pandemic

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The capability given to as many people as possible to access and use products, systems, services, devices, and environments, regardless of their physical or technological abilities. Assistive products are essential means to facilitate the access and participation of a person with special needs in different fields, allowing different activities to be carried out. Learn more in: Accessibility Solutions for Visually Impaired Persons: A Digital Platform Conceptualization

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Accessibility refers to the availability of a product, service, application and facility for use by as many people as possible. In an online environment, the term can be treated as the ability to access and navigate. The notion of the term often centers on people with disabilities and their right to access to and benefit from the use of information technologies. Learn more in: Laws Related to Web and Digital Application Accessibility

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Design of controls and presentation formats to accommodate disabled and mobile learners. Learn more in: A Case of Innovative and Successful Use of Digital Resources for Online Learning: Quality Evaluation Tools for Learning Objects

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Accessibility is the set of characteristics and factors that facilitate communication, access and enjoyment for all citizens in the world. Learn more in: Inclusivity in Higher Tourism Studies: A Necessary Reality

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The degree of psychological openness and rapport, and emotional involvement one person feels towards another during a one-on-one interaction. Learn more in: A Human Affect Recognition System for Socially Interactive Robots

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All learners can use courses in a range of contexts of use, including mainstream and assistive technologies; to achieve this, courses need to be designed and developed, considering technical and learning design aspects, to support usability across these contexts. Learn more in: Reflections on Instructional Design Guidelines From the MOOCification of Distance Education: A Case Study of a Course on Design for All

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The usability of an application for users with disabilities who often use assistive tools and different modalities of interaction (only text, no audio, keyboard instead of mouse…) Learn more in: Training Infrastructure to Participate in Real Life Institutions: Learning through Virtual Worlds

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The ability to access and benefit from a system or entity. The concept focuses on enabling access for people with disabilities or special needs. Learn more in: Integration of Tellurism and Sacred Geometry in Professional Training: Innovation, Healthy Architecture, and Landscape

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Ability to allow individuals with different capabilities and limitations to gain comparable access and use of information or resources. Learn more in: Visual Disabilities, Information Technology, and the Learning of Mathematics

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The goal of making any place or process usable by individuals with disabilities or challenges; in this context, making the Internet and computer technology usable for older adults with physical or cognitive limitations. Learn more in: The Internet Behavior of Older Adults

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When a person with a disability is afforded the opportunity to acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same services as a person without a disability in an equally integrated and equally effective manner, with substantially equivalent ease-of-use (U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights, 2013 AU33: The in-text citation "Office of Civil Rights, 2013" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ). Learn more in: Pandemic Reminders About Inclusivity and Accessibility: For Now and in the Future

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The extent to which an institution is readily approachable and usable by individuals who have been previously disadvantaged for being Black and/or students with disabilities. Learn more in: The Role of University Leadership in Advocating Social Justice in South African Higher Education

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The possibility provided to disabled people to benefit from all the facilities of the community they belong to. Learn more in: Teacher Attitudes Towards the School Integration of Students With Special Educational Needs

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Within this case study accessibility was related to the content development and ensuring that all communication, PowerPoint slides and word documents were fully compliant in terms of accessibility legislation. Learn more in: Building a Community of Practice Across an Institution: How to Embed UDL Through the Plus One Approach Between an Academic Developer and Instructor in STEM

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Area of information control involved with the ability to obtain data. Learn more in: RFIDs and the Changing Marketplace

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A way of designing physical/digital/virtual spaces, products, environments, and devices for stakeholders with various disabilities. This chapter complicates this notion by asking the readers to think beyond disability, and to also consider issues of socioeconomics, gender, race, and learning preference, all of which informs how users engage with content. Learn more in: #teachingbydesign: Complicating Accessibility in the Tech-Mediated Classroom

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The degree to which the information for a program or course can be used by students-with-limitations. Learn more in: Resourcing Equity for Online Learners: Supporting Students-with-Limitations

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Accessibility is the provision of a website to the greatest number of consumers. Learn more in: Quality and Online Banking Case Study: “We Bank” Attijari Bank in Tunisia

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The extent to which the expected readership can retrieve information when they require it. Learn more in: Visibility and Accessibility of Indigenous Knowledge on Open Access Institutional Repositories at Universities in Africa

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The state of being consumable by people who experience disabilities. Learn more in: Assessing Practical Accessibility in Online Courses Based on Local Conditions

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In the context of the ‘new economy’, the concept is understood as the set of complex conditions that make access to the cultural sphere really possible. Learn more in: A Virtual Museum of Pompeii “ex Votos”: Design Strategies

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Must make available to all users all the information, regardless of their physical characteristics, in other words, must provide the right access to the websites. Learn more in: Information Architecture: A Study about Usability and Accessibility

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Accessibility in the sense considered here refers to the design of products, devices, services, interactive system, or application so as to be usable by people with disabilities. Learn more in: Educational Applications as a Support for Reading Disability at Elementary School