E-learning and Disability: Accessibility as a Contribute to Inclusion

E-learning can offer great opportunities to students with disabilities, but still few practitioners know exactly how to make it accessible. Although there are many technical standards and specifics to make e-learning platforms accessible, the pedagogical and didactic perspective of accessibility is not enough studied; disabled students can access to the e-learning platform but not to contents, resources, activities, collaboration and interaction tools. Starting from the basic assumption that an e-learning course is really inclusive when accessibility is addressed both technically and pedagogically, this research has the purpose to examine methods, tools and practices to propose a reference model for designing accessible e-learning courses in the higher education context.