Web Accessibility Model for Visually Impaired Students on eLearning in Higher Education

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 instead of traditional class due to students and teachers could access anywhere and anytime. Internet learning or eLearning also well enabled visually-impaired students to access more materials and work more independently than what they could do via traditional method. In the meantime, eLearning could provide effective learning for higher education to all people who need to continue their studies without being required to enroll in traditional academic system because those people could apply, register, study, and take examination through their own computer based. However, the information and activities posted via internet learning were not fully appropriately accessible with adaptive technology used by general visually-impaired students. Therefore, all eLearning websites should be focused on the issue of accessibility to facilitate visuallyimpaired students to effectively access including eLearning for higher education. This paper therefore would be proposed the eLearning model used for creating success eLearning on higher education together with the factors assisted to create effective eLearning for higher education, and component required to create accessibility of eLearning for higher education to support visually-impaired students. This paper could summarize that to create effective eLearning for higher education that could support the accessibility of visuallyimpaired students, there were four factors required to focus on for developing eLearning for higher education and the eLearning website must consist of four components guideline.