ABSTRACT
In 2021, 41.4% of students enrolled in higher education in Brazil
were enrolled in e-learning courses. Of this contingent, many
students have some visual impairment. Considering that in elearning,
Information Technology is the protagonist in supporting
educational processes through Virtual Learning Environments, it is
essential that this technology be inclusive, allowing access to users
with some type of disability, and providing accessibility in the
digital environment. This work presents the accessibility
assessment in the SENAI Virtual Learning Environment, carried
out by users with visual impairments. An evaluation methodology
for accessibility tests was proposed, which included two stages: (i)
automatic evaluation carried out by inspection tools that evaluate
the source code, and (ii) carrying out manual tests, with the visually
impaired, guided by a test script based on the eMag manual
assessment checklist for the visually impaired (Electronic
Government Accessibility Model). The results of the automatic and
manual evaluation tests indicated that the problems highlighted by
the inspection tools were also noticed by users with visual
impairments, as well as problems related to usability were
identified in the manual test stage. In this way, it was possible to
point out problems and make recommendations based on eMag.
The contributions of this work were the detection and improvement
of the virtual environment