Accessibility

2020 ◽  
pp. 222-232
Author(s):  
Jonathan Lazar
Keyword(s):  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Reading Material ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Legal Foundations ◽  
Print Book ◽  
Book Publishers ◽  
Legal Right

Accessibility means flexibility. In terms of format, some people prefer to read a print book or a newspaper, and other people prefer to read their texts digitally and on different types of devices and screens. All books are now “born-digital,” ready to be transformed into multiple formats, but are often turned into inaccessible formats (such as improperly formatted PDFs). Even when people with disabilities have the legal right to access reading material in the format that they need and can process, often they must enforce that right when book publishers, content providers, educational systems, and administrators do not provide reading content in appropriate formats. This chapter discusses both the legal foundations and the technical foundations of accessible reading. The chapter closes with ten suggestions for how to encourage publishers and others to make reading material more accessible.

PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY COMPARED TO OTHER TYPES OF DISABILITIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 571 (10) ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Zakrzewska-Manterys
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Public Support ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Support Needs ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Specific Group ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Different Types ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities

Disability is a wide concept, encompassing different types of disability, different capabilities of people with disabilities and different social support needs. People with intellectual disabilities belong to a specific group. They do not fit into the mainstream of support and activation measures for disabled people. Although they are a small group (about 1%), they require care which is not provided within the current social policy towards people with disabilities. The article provides examples of public activities unfavourable and favourable for the well-being of people with intellectual disabilities. This could be a starting point for a preparation of a policy project of accurate public support for this group of people

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah F. Rose
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Good Citizenship ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Paid Labor

By the 1920s, people with many different types and origins of disabilities—from tuberculosis and feeble-mindedness to amputations and blindness—had been pushed out of the paid labor market and, thereby, edged out from “good citizenship.” Most people with disabilities kept on working, although their labors were rarely recognized or compensated as such. The “problem” of disability, however, lay not in the actual bodies of disabled people, but rather in the meanings assigned to those impairments by employers and policy makers, as well as how those meanings intersected with shifting family capacities, a rapidly changing workplace, public policies aimed at discouraging dependency, and the complexity and mutability of disability itself....

scholarly journals Inclusion of Workers with Disabilities in Production 4.0: Legal Foundations in Europe and Potentials Through Worker Assistance Systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 5978 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedikt G. Mark ◽  
Sarah Hofmayer ◽  
Erwin Rauch ◽  
Dominik T. Matt
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
The Other ◽  
Industrial Companies ◽  
Employees With Disabilities ◽  
Legal Foundations ◽  
Assistance Systems ◽  
The One

The inclusion of employees with disabilities in production is an issue that has rarely been addressed by scientists from the manufacturing sector. In this article, we examine to what extent the trend towards Industry 4.0 offers potential for the inclusion of people with disabilities in Production 4.0. First, we examine relevant legal foundations and restrictions in Europe and in more detail in Austria, Italy, and Norway. Next, based on a literature review, we examine which technological aids in the form of worker assistance systems derived from Industry 4.0 can make jobs in the manufacturing sector accessible for people with disabilities. Three types of assistance systems have been examined: sensorial aid systems, physical aid systems, and cognitive aid systems. In a concluding discussion of the results, we finally summarize the implications on management and policies as well as the potential and limitations of identified worker assistance technologies. On the one hand, the study is intended to draw the attention of researchers and industrial companies to new technological possibilities for the inclusion of people with disabilities in production. On the other hand, difficulties and grievances due to the legal foundations are pointed out to stimulate a critical discussion here as well.

scholarly journals Preferences of people with disabilities on wheelchairs in relation to forest trails for recreational in selected European countries

2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 116-122
Author(s):  
Emilia Janeczko ◽  
Mariana Jakubisová ◽  
Małgorzata Woźnicka ◽  
Jitka Fialova ◽  
Pavla Kotásková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Optimal Length ◽  
Forest Roads ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Recreational Trails

Abstract The article presents the results of the survey on the preferences of disabled people in wheelchairs for selected features recreational trails in the woods. The study was conducted in 2015, including a sample of 130 people older than 18 years, in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia (52 interviews in Poland, 21 in the Czech Republic and 57 in Slovakia). Respondents were interviewed both at the premises of the organisation as well as by email. The questions in the survey were designed to determine the preferences of the respondents in terms of recreational trails in the forests concerned: the optimal length of the route, recreational and educational points along the distribution routes of and usability of different types of forest roads. The results show that there is quite a lot of differences between the preferences of respondents from each of the analysed countries. Respondents from the Poland and Slovakia prefer shorter routes for recreation in forests, with a greater incidence of recreational and educational points along the route, whilst respondents in the Czech Republic prefer far longer routes, with a relatively larger distance between recreational points. In all the analysed countries, people with disabilities attributed highest usefulness to asphalt surfaces, concrete surfaces or surfaces made of cobblestones. The surface evaluated lowest for usability was made of wood.

scholarly journals Natural Language Processing methods for Document Matching

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 379-383
Author(s):  
Maitri Patel and Dr Hemant D Vasava
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Original Work ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Processing Methods ◽  
Similar Test ◽  
Subject Examination ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Higher Educational

Data,Information or knoweldge,in this rapidly moving and growing world.we can find any kind of information on Internet.And this can be too useful,however for acedemic world too it is useful but along with it plagarism is highly in practice.Which makes orginality of work degrade and fraudly using someones original work and later not acknowleging them is becoming common.And some times teachers or professors could not identify the plagarised information provided.So higher educational systems nowadays use different types of tools to compare.Here we have an idea to match no of different documents like assignments of students to compare with each other to find out, did they copied each other’s work?Also an idea to compare ideal answeer sheet of particular subject examination to similar test sheets of students.Idea is to compare and on similarity basis we can rank them.Both approach is one kind and that is to compare documents.To identify plagarism there are many methods used already.So we could compare and develop them if needed.

Homer in Modern Europe

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-185
Author(s):  
PIM DEN BOER
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Greek Text ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Reading Material ◽  
Nation States ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
The 19Th Century

Homer is considered the father of poetry in European culture, but the written Greek text of the Iliad and the Odyssey was for ages not available in modern Europe, and knowledge of Greek was almost completely lost. Homer entered European classrooms during the 19th century. The popularity of the Iliad and the Odyssey coincided with the creation of modern educational systems in European empires and nation-states. At the end of the 19th century Homer was considered perfect reading material for the formation of the future elite of the British Empire. In the course of the 20th century teachers and pedagogues became increasingly accustomed to perceive Homer and his society as totally different from our times. All reading of Homer is contemporary reading.

scholarly journals Religious Tolerance, Gender Equality and Bellicose Attitudes: A Comparative Study of Three Educational Systems in Pakistan

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Nazia Nazar ◽  
Karin Österman ◽  
Kaj Björkqvist
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
Religious Intolerance ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
And Gender

The study explores differences between Pakistani students from three types of schools regarding religious tolerance, views on gender equality, and bellicose attitudes towards India. A questionnaire was filled in by 285 girls and 300 boys, 15−17 years of age (mean age identical for both = 15.8, SD = 0.8), from three different types of schools (Urdu Medium, English Medium, and Madrassas). Significant differences were found: students attending English Medium schools differed most from other students. They scored highest on religious tolerance and gender equality, and lowest on bellicose attitudes towards India, while students attending Madrassas scored lowest on gender equality. Especially girls from the Madrassas scored lower than all other students on religious tolerance, and highest on bellicose attitudes. Madrassa students experienced themselves as victims of religious intolerance more often than others. Religious tolerance and positive attitudes towards gender equality were highly correlated.

Family pedagogy and home education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Sergeeva ◽  
E. Nikitina ◽  
M. Nedveckaya ◽  
N. Vinogradova ◽  
E. Shashenkova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Formation ◽  
Family Education ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Pedagogy ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Legal Foundations ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
Family Regulation

The textbook reveals the normative and legislative acts of family regulation and the legal foundations of family education, describes the family at different stages of its formation, the history and traditions of the family in different faiths. The article presents the characteristics of family formation and marital relations. The basics of raising children in different types of families are formulated and methods of improving the pedagogical culture of parents are proposed. For students of secondary vocational education institutions. It can be useful for bachelors, undergraduates, postgraduates and students of advanced training courses and retraining of teaching staff.

RESEARCH OF SENSITIVITY TO EXTERNAL PARAMETERS OF THE LEARNING PROCESS WITH THE HELP OF ERGONOMICS IN THE ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-60
Author(s):  
Hikmatullo Khaldarov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
First Order ◽  
Teaching Aids ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Technical Teaching

This research work is devoted to the development and creation of a mathematical model of the learning process based on ergonomics, to study the quality of education in the acquisition of knowledge. And also one of the types of qualitative indicators of the theory of sensitivityand roughness to the used parameters of different types of technical means is proposed, the process, which is described by a system of first-order differential equations, and its function is determined using partial derivatives.Key words:ergonomics, mathematical modeling of the learning process, quality of teaching of educational systems, mathematical research methods, technical teaching aids

Adoption of Blended Learning Technologies in Selected Secondary Schools in Cameroon and Nigeria

2015 ◽  
pp. 929-943
Author(s):  
Julius T. Nganji ◽  
Shawulu H. Nggada
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Learning Resource ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Time Distance

Blended learning could be seen as the solution to learning resource accessibility, especially when the indicators of measure are limited to distance and time. Distance and time could be said to be the generic indicators for the measure of blended learning. However, these do not solve the problem for everyone in society. For Inclusive Blended Learning (IBL), different types of users in society should be considered in its design. This is exactly what has provoked the focus of this chapter, to investigate the position of blended learning with respect to people with disabilities. The chapter's investigation is centered on selected secondary schools in Cameroon and Nigeria.

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