Accessibility in the Institutional Repositories of Brazilian and Mexican Universities: a study based on the social model of disability

• Autor(a) principal: Francisco, Lucilene Aparecida
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Silva, Terezinha Elisabeth da, Gonçalez, Paula Regina Ventura Amorim
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Information Science
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/bjis/article/view/12983
• topic: Repositórios institucionais; Acessibilidade; Estudantes com deficiência; Publicações de livre acesso.; Repositorios institucionales; Accesibilidad; Estudiantes con discapacidad; Publicaciones de libre acceso; Institutional repositories; Accessibility; Students with disabilities; Open-access publications

Repositories seek to gather, organize and disseminate scientific and technological production, contributing to preserve culture and institutional memory. They have as a prerequisite the purpose of providing access to information to the entire community. From this conception, this study aimed to verify the accessibility index of Brazilian and Mexican institutional repositories based on the accessibility and usability evaluator and simulator in digital environments ”Access Monitor”, highlighting the points of compliance and non-compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). This is an exploratory, descriptive research carried out directly on the electronic addresses of the repositories of the first ten Brazilian and Mexican universities according to the Ranking Web of Universities in February 2022. The results showed that the evaluated sites had a score smaller than 7 and that the practices are mostly at level “A”, pointing out that, when acceptable, they are not sufficient to guarantee accessibility and, when not acceptable, the websites do not meet the basic criteria of the Guidelines. As final considerations, we highlight the need for repositories to adapt to the accessibility standards proposed by the WCAG, adopting the Social Model of Disability as a philosophy for their actions.