Avaliação de acessibilidade no site de uma instituição de ensino superior

Abstract

The current society amid the growing use of the web has been showing a large amount of information that is made available to various people, regardless of their skills and abilities. So it is necessary that the web systems are accessible to all people, independent of special needs. Portals, websites and electronic public administration Web sites, by law, have to make accessible the content and information available. Aiming to aid a federal education institution to make its information accessible to visually impaired people, this work is proposed to carry out an evaluation of accessibility on the Web site of this institution. The evaluation was performed automatically and manually in a sample of pages in the site and using the recommendations of the Web Content Accessibility Guide (WCAG 2.0). The results showed problems with images, tables, forms, links, and demonstrated that the pages are not in compliance with the guidelines. An interview was held with members of the team responsible for developing the site to pick up information about the team’s knowledges and concerns related to the subject. At the end, we made a survey of the main problems and suggestions for improvement. The results obtained showed that the institution have to adapt the site with recommendations of accessibility, in order to be in accordance with the law, to promote the inclusion offering access to disabled people and to give the right to visually impaired people to exercise their autonomy.