TY - GEN
T1 - Peruvian Public Universities and the Accessibility of Their Websites
AU - Benites Alfaro, Fanny Dolores
AU - Zapata Del Río, Claudia María Del Pilar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The educational field is not unrelated to the growing use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), due to this, Higher Education institutions publish on their websites the most relevant information and services they provide. On the other hand, access to information systems by people with disabilities is a right and to achieve it, it is important that they are designed with accessibility standards. Knowing this problem, a diagnosis was made of a set of Peruvian public universities, in order to know the problems of web accessibility that they present at a global level and provide adequate recommendations. To this end, a set of web pages of Peruvian public universities was selected to be evaluated considering the recommendations of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and its Methodology for the Evaluation of Web Accessibility in its version 2.0. Based on the accessibility studies, the way of carrying out the evaluation method was defined, which was applied to the study domain, obtaining low levels of accessibility in the contents of the pages: home and academic offer, as well as a list of common problems. Finally, general recommendations were made.
AB - The educational field is not unrelated to the growing use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), due to this, Higher Education institutions publish on their websites the most relevant information and services they provide. On the other hand, access to information systems by people with disabilities is a right and to achieve it, it is important that they are designed with accessibility standards. Knowing this problem, a diagnosis was made of a set of Peruvian public universities, in order to know the problems of web accessibility that they present at a global level and provide adequate recommendations. To this end, a set of web pages of Peruvian public universities was selected to be evaluated considering the recommendations of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and its Methodology for the Evaluation of Web Accessibility in its version 2.0. Based on the accessibility studies, the way of carrying out the evaluation method was defined, which was applied to the study domain, obtaining low levels of accessibility in the contents of the pages: home and academic offer, as well as a list of common problems. Finally, general recommendations were made.
KW - Accessibility
KW - University
KW - Web site
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85050621172
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-91806-8_46
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-91806-8_46
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85050621172
SN - 9783319918051
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 589
EP - 607
BT - Design, User Experience, and Usability
A2 - Marcus, Aaron
A2 - Wang, Wentao
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 7th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2018 Held as Part of HCI International 2018
Y2 - 15 July 2018 through 20 July 2018
ER -