Bibliotecas nacionales y accesibilidad web. Situación en América Latina

Abstract

This study presents the accessibility situation of main pages of the websites of 16 national libraries in Latin America, taking in account its compliance with web accessibility guidelines established by the World Wide Web Consortium in recommendation 2.0. The evaluation was carried out using the web accessibility tool TAW, which allows automatic analysis of the difficulties in accessing the web, based on the four principles, guidelines, and 14 accessibility indicators. As a result it was clear that websites analyzed do not have an acceptable accessibility level, due to the fact that accessibility success rate criteria was 19.9 %, indicator that does not achieve an average result, and only two indicators achieve values over than 50 %. Taking in account all this, it is recommended to make corresponding adjustments in order to solve the problems that make difficult web accessibility to the main page of these libraries, and also to carry out periodical checks using defined tool, or others that can contribute to the solution of these problems.