From the principles describe in the MOOC Accessibility for People with disabilities (PWD) project and through co-design sessions with PWD and experts, we developed Aïana, an accessible MOOC player. Aïana has been used in the context of a MOOC on Digital Accessibility available on the national platform FUN (with more than 5600 registered users from 60 different country nowadays).
Moreover we observed how learners were using Aïana through activities follow-up and questionnaires that we proposed to them. These measures enabled us to validate two main results : first, in contradiction to “classic” MOOC, percentage of PWD following our MOOC was equivalent to the global population, which is a strong indication of its accessibility. Second, we observed a learning performance at the end of the MOOC equivalent for PWD and other learners. Thus, it has been particularly beneficial for learners with cognitive impairment.
