Providing educational opportunities within online environments, while beneficial, also has the potential to exclude a significant portion of the population. The learning and/or physically disabled may be prevented from accessing online learning environments due to problems both in the design of the technology itself, and with the pedagogy directing the use of this technology. This paper present...

Cloud computing is an emerging concept of information technology that in many countries has an influence on many companies. The research was conducted to evaluate cloud computing adoption in Saudi Arabia; Benefits and hindrances for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The qualitative research approach is performed by interviews with the management of a variety of SMEs active in the infor...

Distance learning is acquiring a role that becomes more and more important with the huge diffusion of the Internet and related technologies. This paper proposes a novel heuristic intelligent distance learning platform based on information technology and cloud computing. The proposed platform that are committed to accessibility assure that course designers understand the program's commitment to ...

Information technology should be accessible to all users. Above all disabled persons in a public environment depend on such accessibility to today’s information technology (e.g. cash dispensers, ticket selling machines, etc.). In this article we show how multimodality can be used to provide universal accessibility to public kiosk systems making assistive technology applicable in the public spac...

Due to the significant increase in threats, attacks and vulnerabilities that affect the Web in recent years has resulted the development and implementation of tools and methods to ensure security measures in the privacy, confidentiality and data integrity of users and businesses. Under certain circumstances, despite the implementation of these tools do not always get the flow of information whi...

The W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) provide guidance on making websites accessible to people with disabilities. WCAG 1.0 focused largely on coding requirements that enable websites to interoperate with assistive technologies used by people with disabilities. WCAG 2.0 addresses an environment where website complexity has increased significantly due to higher network bandwidth and...

New and emerging technologies promise to revolutionize risk communication. The benefits of technology are discussed with regard to the components of a recently described warning process model. Examples are provided to illustrate how technology can potentially improve information accessibility and cognitive support. Design principles such as warning interactivity, dynamic modification and person...

The Web is the most pervasive collaborative technology in widespread use today; however, access to the web and its many applications cannot be taken for granted. Web accessibility encompasses a variety of concerns ranging from societal, political, and economic to individual, physical, and intellectual through to the purely technical. Thus, there are many perspectives from which web accessibilit...

More than a decade ago, internet had gradually come to play a major role in the world as it was an advance technological tool provided various benefits to human being. Internet could also influence in educational field because it was the advance media to create distance learning in term of online learning or eLearning. Many universities and colleges have turned to focus on eLearning class inste...

Accessibility is becoming more and more relevant in Information technologies, such as the Web and software applications, particularly due to the push on legislation to make public services accessible to everyone. While most accessibility issues are envisioned by the developer-user dichotomy, several stakeholders are responsible for the successful implementation of accessible software and servic...