Digital technologies in present day interconnect globally, providing a dynamic environment to support the educational needs of any learner within a novel technological ecosystem. The paper discusses the identified aspects of providing relevant digital accessibility to learners with various needs by this ecosystem, such as sensor support, knowledge provision from a variety of digital and non-digital repositories, and support to the motivation of the learner to acquire better knowledge in the classroom, museum, or in rehabilitation. A novel tool for assessment of such technological ecosystems, called Accessibility Barometer, is described.

The paper presents the currently developed framework for analysis of accessibility in digital and e-Learning systems, which extends the subject-object relation by including robots in the interaction process. A mainstream experimental framework in special education – false-belief task - is analyzed from a Piagetian perspective and modified to account for the intermediate role of the robot in supporting the learner acquire new knowledge or access the digital and e-Learning information available in the World. Published as: M. Dimitrova, A. Krastev, N. Sabev and J. David Nunez-Gonzalez, “Digital and e-Learning Accessibility for People with Special Educational Needs: A Robotic Perspective,” 2021 19th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET), 2021, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ITHET50392.2021.9759704.