Towards an Accessible UX for People with Disabilities in Open Educational Resources Websites Rosa Navarrete 1(&) , Myriam Peñafiel 1 , Maritzol Tenemaza 1 , and Sergio Luján-Mora 2 1 Department of Informatics and Computer Science, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador {rosa.navarrete,myriam.penafiel, maritzol.tenemaza}@epn.edu.ec 2 Department of Language and Computer Science, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain sergio.lujan@ua.es Abstract. The OER movement strives to support quality education being inclusive, equitable, open and participatory. Nevertheless, people with disabil- ities are still hindered from taking advantage of OER because of issues related to accessibility and usability in OER environments. Frequently, accessibility has not been wholly ensured, both in the website interface and in educational resources, and usability considerations have often excluded the specific needs of people with disabilities. We propose an architecture design for the OER envi- ronment guided by the concept of accessible user experience (aUX) that enhance accessibility and usability for a user disability profile. This design produces an adaptive response from the web interface that facilitates perception, under- standing, navigation, and operation. Finally, to improve the meaning of infor- mation in search results for OER on the Web, we propose the embedded markup through a set of descriptors that can be interpreted by major search engines. Keywords: Accessible user experience Á Accessibility Á Usability Á Open Educational Resources Á Embedded markup 1 Introduction Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning materials release under open licenses that granted permissions to remove legal barriers to sharing, adapting and customizing [1]. OER have different formats such as documents, videos, images, podcast, and web pages. These resources are available through websites usually sponsored by Univer- sities, academic or governmental institutions. The goal is that OER can accommodate a greater diversity of learner needs, including people with disabilities. Nevertheless, this goal has not still achieved because accessibility has not been addressed with an integrative approach, that is, on the websites that offer these resources and in the resources themselves [2]. Furthermore, usability considerations usually target everyone who uses the OER Website interface © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 T. Ahram and C. Falcão (Eds.): AHFE 2019, AISC 972, pp. 58–70, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19135-1_7