ACCESSIBILITY ON THE WEBSITES OF LIBRARIES OF THE FEDERAL INSTITUTES OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF THE NORTH / NORTHEAST REGIONS
Web Accessibility. Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology. Disabled People
The present research aims to evaluate the Federal Institutes of Education, Science and
Technology’s libraries web pages from north and northeast regions, considering
accessibility’s patterns recommended for World Web Consortium (W3C), Web
Content Accessibility Guidelines- WCAG), Eletronic Government Web Standards, and
for Eletronic Government Accessibility Template (E- MAG). Web accessibility
proposes the inclusion of disabled users in the web content exhibition’s varied patterns
and templates. The main goal of that study is to evaluate libraries web pages’
accessibility for disabled users of Federal Institutes from north and northeast regions.
Therefore, the specific goals are: identify the Federal Institutes’ libraries that provide
accessibility’ tools in their main web pages; verify if the main web pages of libraries of
Federal Institute from north and northeast regions attend the accessibility’s patterns
according to recommendations showed for W3C based on WCAG and E- MAG;
elaborate a guideline with accessibility’ recomendations to build web pages according
to suggested patterns. For the methodology, the study applies a consistent review in
specialized literature of Applied Science, conducted by inductive method, adopting
both the exploratory research, and descriptive one, after the study of guidelines’ and
acccessibility’s patterns, respectively. The data collection started with sixteen web
pages of Federal Institute’s libraries, that were analised in experiments through Ases
accessibility validation. Moreover, for analysis of results was used content’s analysis
technique. Thereby, based on showed data results, it is concluded that the libraries’
web pages of Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology from north and
northeast have been partly accessible. So, the following work may be a direction for
other ones, in order to provide necessary changes and achieve satisfactory results of
web accessibility, not only for Federal Institutes from north and northeast as well as
extending for IFs all over the Brazil.