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The UNED
diversity as full members of the university com-
munity (Rodriguez-Ascaso et al., 2008b; Santos
et al. 2006).
UDO services are grouped according to the
following categories:
The UNED is the largest university in Spain and
one of the greatest universities in the world with
an average of 180.000 students enrolled per year.
It has over 1400 full time teaching staff, more
than 6000 tutors and 2000 administrative staff.
It is a global university with 60 study centers
and 15 study centers abroad. UNED courses are
taught through distance learning for students
all over the world (some centers abroad are lo-
cated in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Equatorial
Guinea, Morocco, and United States). Nowadays,
UNED offers graduate studies in 23 different
fields, including Humanities, Social Sciences,
Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Engineering
and Computer Science. The graduate studies are
complemented by post-graduate and doctoral
studies. UNED also offers post-graduate courses
like Masters and specialization courses for those
people who have finished their graduate studies
and want to continue studying (ongoing educa-
tion). UNED works intensively to update and im-
prove its distance learning methodology through
a pervasive use of ICTs, which is reflected on its
management and educational services, including
Campus UNED-e, educational TV and Radio,
UNED-mobile, UNED-Wi-Fi, etc.
Students with disabilities have no-fee enrol-
ment in courses at UNED and are provided with a
support department to offer the required services,
the so-called UNED Disability Office (UDO).
UDO staff is trained to support the accessibility
preferences of a wide range of disabilities, includ-
ing perceptual, motor, and psychic disabilities.
Demands on necessities for the study also vary
widely, including architectural accessibility,
text-book adaptations, web and multimedia ad-
aptations, sign language or Braille translations
and, mainly, examination adaptations. UDO, in
collaboration with aDeNu research group, have
created an online community for UNED's students
with disabilities, as a tool to contribute to the
effective integration of people with functional
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Studies and examination processes and re-
lated accommodations.
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Counselling, support and mediation activi-
ties to guide teaching staff in the provision
of services to attend specific disability
needs.
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Supporting students with disabilities along
the whole life cycle of their studies and be-
yond to help their integration in the labour
market.
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Dissemination and disability related aware-
ness activities.
According to the user requirements and the
subsequent specification of services, a set of end
user services have been defined in EU4ALL for
the UNED pilot site.
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Allowing users to complete and/or check
the information stored in the system about
their accessibility needs and preferences,
as well as their psycho-educational style
and needs.
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Inviting students to take a personalized
course that will introduce them to the uni-
versity's learning environment, as well
as to support e-services available at the
university.
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Checking whether a learning media item
would be accessible to a student based on
the given user profile.
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Mediating the manual adaptation of an in-
accessible resource through a management
workflow tailored to conditions found at
the institution.
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Synchronising the user's accessibility
needs and preferences with her portfolio,
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