Title :
Novel approach for accessible visual resources in a Web based learning environment
Author :
Bensiali, Saloua ; Ajhoun, Rachida ; Abik, Mounia
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Stat. & Comput. Sci., Hassan II Inst. of Agronomy & Veterinary Med., Rabat, Morocco
Abstract :
For promoting accessibility in a Web based learning environment, ISO and IEC developed the International Standard ISO/IEC 24571. This norme helps to match the needs of learners with disabilities with appropriate accessible digital resources. However, when a visual resource doesn´t have a textual adapted resource, it stays inaccessible. In this paper we present a novel approach having as objective, an automatic generation of adapted resources for digital images used like a pedagogical resources. Indeed, it makes it possible to provide automatically a textual and a semantic interpretation of the visual resources in order to make them accessible to all learners. To carry out our approach, we benefit from the techniques of image processing at end to make the conversion of raster images towards the format Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG), and to introduce semantic classification into SVG.
Keywords :
IEC standards; ISO standards; Internet; computer aided instruction; computer graphics; image classification; International Standard ISO-IEC 24571; SVG; Web based learning environment; adapted resources automatic generation; digital resources; image processing; pedagogical resources; scalable vector graphic; semantic classification; visual resources; Image color analysis; Semantics; Shape; Vectors; Visualization; XML; SVG; accessible visual pedagogical resource; image classification; image clustering; image mining; image semantic; vision with computer;
Conference_Titel :
Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Marrakech
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1457-2
Electronic_ISBN :
2165-9559
DOI :
10.1109/EDUCON.2012.6201150