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Course: 2018/2019

Accessibility of digital content

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Study: Bachelor in Management of Information and Digital Contents (340)

Coordinating teacher: SERRANO LOPEZ, ANTONIO ELEAZAR

Department assigned to the subject: Department of Library Science and Documentation

Type: Compulsory

ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course: 3º

Semester: 2º

Students are expected to have completed

Digital Information: Legal and ethic aspects

Competences and skills that will be acquired and learning results. Further information on this link

This subject it is based on the importance of the information systems accesibility and the need of include accesibility and usability principles on all stages of the design and development of these systems and the digital documents contained there. Among the main competencies stand out:

CB4: Students can communicate information, ideas, problems and solves to both, especializated and general public.
CG1: To know and to apply basic principles and techniques so as to information management on digital media.
CE4: To know methods of retrieval, process, debug and aggregate data, understanding the needs of users and organizations and the way they need them.
CE7: To know and to manage digital edition tools for content creating.
CE9: To know principles, techniques and tools of user-centered design for digital products, including multimedia contents and be able of apply techniques for usability evaluation of environments and digital products.
CE12: To know principles of design and planning of an interactive complex digital publication and fully operable.

Description of contents: programme

Justification of universal design and information accessibility needs
Fundamental concepts about universal information design
WAI initiative and web consortium guidelines
Tools for accessibility web validation
Methods for developing accessible web project
National and international regulation and standards

Learning activities and methodology

Theoretical-practical and practical classes:
Acquisition of theoretical and practical knowledge (4 ECTS) through the theoretical and practical classes, teaching materials prepared by the teacher, online tutorials, specialized readings and comments on the readings, as well as the personal study of the students. It is related to the CE4, CE7, CE9 and CE12 competitions.

Individual or group work of the student
Acquisition of skills and abilities (2 ECTS) through practices in which the acquired knowledge will be applied for the design, development, obtaining of results, discussion and extraction of conclusions in a research work. It is related to the CB4 and CG1 competences.

Assessment System

The evaluation system takes into account the personalized follow-up that has been made of the student, in the practical classes, seminars and tutorials; the evaluation of the internship work, and the performance of a written academic exam or test.

The final exam contributes 50% of the final grade.
The practical activity, practical exercises and the comments of the readings in class, contribute 50% to the final grade.

The qualification of the continuous evaluation will only be considered when the final exam is passed.

% end-of-term-examination 50
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 50

Basic Bibliography

Alonso, F.. Algo más que suprimir barreras: conceptos y argumentos para una accesibilidad universal. 2017. Trans. Revista de traductología, (11), 15-30
Keates S.. Designing for accesibility: a business guide to countering design exclusion. Lawrence Earlbaum Associates. 2007
Lara, P.. La accesibilidad de los contenidos Web. UOC. 2006
Lazar, J.. Web usability: a user-centered design approach. Addison Wesley. 2006
López Zambrano, Javier Hernán and Moreira Pico, Ramón Joffre and Alava Cagua, Nathaly Valeria. Metodología para valorar y clasificar herramientas de evaluación de accesibilidad web. e-Ciencias de la Información, 8(1). 2018
Nielsen, J.. Usabilidad: prioridad en el diseño Web. Anaya. 2006
Rosenfeld L, Morville P.. Arquitecturas de la información para el World Wide Web. McGrawHill. 2001
Sachs T.. Sitios web orientados al usuario. Pearson Education. 2002
W3C. Guía breve de accesibilidad Web. World Wide Web Consortium. 2016

Electronic Resources *

Carreras, O. · Usable y Accesible : https://olgacarreras.blogspot.com.es/

Additional Bibliography

Guenaga, M. L., Barbier, A., & Eguiluz, A.. La accesibilidad y las tecnologías en la información y la comunicación. TRANS. Revista de traductología, (11), 155-169.. 2017
Lazar, J.. Universal usability: designing computer interfaces for diverse user populations. John Wiley & Sons. 2007
Marino, S. I., Alfonzo, P., Escalante, J. E., Alderete, R., & Godoy, M. V.. Las pautas WCAG 2.0 para determinar el nivel de accesibilidad en dos plataformas educativas/WCAG 2.0 Guidelines to Determine the Accessibility Level of Two Educational Platforms. Revista Internacional de Tecnologías en la Educación, 2(2). 2016
Mariño, S. I., Godoy Guglielmone, M. V., & Alfonzo, P. L.. Métodos y herramientas de las WCAG 2.0 en el desarrollo web. XVII Workshop de Investigadores en Ciencias de la Computación. 2015
Wentz, B., Jaeger, P. T., & Bertot, J. C.. Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities and the Inclusive Future of Libraries. Advances in Librarianship. Volume 40. . 2015

(*) Access to some electronic resources may be restricted to members of the university community and require validation through Campus Global. If you try to connect from outside of the University you will need to set up a VPN

The course syllabus and the academic weekly planning may change due academic events or other reasons.