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Joint Study Programme on Accessible Web Design

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This paper presents an international study programme on accessible web design which is under development in the framework of an EU – Erasmus Project. The paper will discuss the strong need for a Europe-wide academic training programme on accessible web design, the curriculum, the teaching and eLearning tools, the accreditation and the additional benefit of the programme.

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, Johannes Kepler Universität, Email: integriert-studieren@jku.at, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Barbara Hengstberger, Klaus Miesenberger & Mario Batusic

  2. Baobab, Email: baobab@associacio-baobab.org, Rambla San Sebastian 38-40, Sta. Coloma de Gramenet, 08922, Barcelona, Spain

    Noura Chelbat & Andrés Rodríguez García

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    Hengstberger, B., Miesenberger, K., Batusic, M., Chelbat, N., Rodríguez García, A. (2008). Joint Study Programme on Accessible Web Design. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W., Karshmer, A. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5105. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70540-6_26

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