Accessibility and Model-Based Web Application Development

Especially eLearning and eScience technologies offer a wide range of possibilities for pedagogical concepts supporting individual demands and interests. The two deciding factors are given by its interaction capability and the ability to adapt to the user, both practically unachievable using traditional media. These two features are the key to extend the methodology of teaching scenarios as well as the support of individual learning strategies the integration of new media into the academic education thus possesses the potential to assist in transcending the disadvantages in the education of disabled people. Based on semantic content encoding and model-based development, a broad range of accessibility features can be supported. Within the BeLearning-Project at the Berlin University of Technology, these issues are investigated.