- Basic Computer Skills - Internet Technologies - Digital Edition

1. Understanding of the social need of information accessibility. 2. To be able of knowing, identifying and performing nationa and international legal background about information accesibility applied specialy to the web, as well as international guidelines cited by the legal regulation. 3. Identification and correction of global accessibility problems in a particular information system, especially in a website. 4. Global Accessibility assessment of an information system regarding international technical standars. 5. Proposition of immediate solutions to repair accessibility problems in an information system. 6. Information corpus creation according with universal design principles and information accessibility. 7. Use of accessibility tools and evaluation softwware for problem solving. 8. Policies recommendation in information design for an organization following the universal design and accessibility principles.

The new ways for information dissemination through Internet encompase unthinkable posibilities for universal access, adknowledged and fostered by the legal regulation on information access. However, a superficial analysis of current web shows that a lot of people ignore both the need of information accessibility and the methods to reach access for all, overcoming handicaped limits, as well as new devices for accessing electronic information (smartphones, tablets and so on). So, the course lessons are: 1. Introduction to user-centered design and information accessibility. 2. Design for accessibility. 3. User and tasks analyses. 4. Universal usability. 5. Usability testing. 6. Anaysing and presenting findings and results. 7. Web accessibility laws, initiatives and international standards.

Acquisition of theoretical knowledge (3 ECTS), through lectures, teaching materials, online tutorials, readings and debates (1.2 ECTS) and self-study of students (1, 8 ECTS), in order to meet competences 1-4 and 8. Acquisition of skills and abilities (total 3 ECTS), through different assignments regarding evaluation and improvement of the web accessibility, and design for accessibility, in order to meet competences 3-8.