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Course: 2025/2026

Accessibility of digital content
(17464)
Bachelor in Management of Information and Digital Contents (Study Plan 2017) (Plan: 376 - Estudio: 340)


Coordinating teacher: PERIANES RODRIGUEZ, ANTONIO

Department assigned to the subject: Library and Information Sciences Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course: 3º
Semester: 2º



Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
- Information architecture (1º). - Multimedia content (1º). - Digital Information: legal and ethic aspects (2º). - Computing technologies for the Web (3º).
Objectives
This subject is based on the importance of the accessibility of digital information systems and the need to incorporate usability and accessibility principles at all stages of the design and development of these systems and the digital documents they contain.
Description of contents: programme
PART 1. DIGITAL CONTENT ARCHITECTURE Lesson 1. Information architecture. Lesson 2. Accesible design. Lesson 3. User-centered design. Lesson 4. Design and evaluation of interfaces. Lesson 5. Analysis of users and tasks. Lesson 6. Interaction design. PART 2. DIGITAL CONTENT CREATION Lesson 7. Universal usability. Lesson 8. Usability tests. Lesson 9. Content organisation. Lesson 10. Metadata. Lesson 11. Readability and legibility. PART 3. LEGAL AND FUNCTIONAL ACCESSIBILITY Lesson 12. Legal aspects of accessibility. Lesson 13. Open Access and Open Science. Lesson 14. User manuals. Lesson 15. Information search.
Learning activities and methodology
Theoretical-practical classes: Acquisition of theoretical and practical knowledge through theoretical and practical lessons, teaching materials, online tutorials, specific readings and comments on the readings (related to competences CE4, CE7, and CE9). Individual or group assignments: Acquire skills and competences through practical assignments aimed at designing and developing research, including persuasive arguments and conclusions (related to competences CB4 and CG1).
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination/test 50
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 50

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • FERNANDEZ-COCA, Antonio. Producción y diseño gráfico para la World Wide Web. Barcelona: Paidos. 2006.
  • KEATES, Simeon. Designing for accessibility: a business guide to countering design exclusion. New Jersey: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates. 2007.
  • KRUG, Steve. No me hagas pensar. Madrid: Prentice Hall. 2001.
  • LARA, Pablo. La accesibilidad de los contenidos Web. Barcelona: UOC. 2006.
  • LAZAR, Jonathan. Web usability: a user-centered design approach. Boston: Addison Wesley. 2006
  • LYNCH, Patrick J; HORTON, Sarah. Manual de estilo web: Principios de diseño básicos para la creación de sitios web. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili. 2004.
  • MORENO MUÑOZ, Antonio. Diseño ergonómico de aplicaciones hipermedia. Barcelona: Paidos. 2000.
  • NIELSEN, Jakob. Usabilidad: prioridad en el diseño Web. Madrid: Anaya Multimedia. 2006.
  • NORMAN, Donald. Psicología de los objetos cotidianos. Barcelona: Norma. 1999.
  • PRING, Roger. www.color tipografía: 300 diseños tipográficos para sitios web. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili. 2000.
  • PRING, Roger. www.color: 300 usos de color para sitios web. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili. 2001.
  • ROSENFELD Louis; MORVILLE, Peter. Arquitecturas de la información para el World Wide Web. México: McGrawHill. 2001.
  • SACHS, Tammy. Sitios web orientados al usuario. Madrid: Pearson Educación. 2002.
  • W3C. Guía breve de accesibilidad Web. [Gijón]: World Wide Web Consortium. [2016].

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.