Accesibilidad web en universidades del consejo de rectores de Chile: análisis preliminar

Abstract

The objective of this study is to evaluate the level of accessibility of the initial websites of the universities that form part of the so-called Council of Rectors of Chile, twenty-seven state and non-state public universities considering that there is noupdated information about this,and inclusion is an issue that involves all of us. There are laws and a web accessibility guide updated in 2017 by the National Disability Service that establishes the AA level as a requirement for accessibility, based on the accessibility guidelines for web content (WCAG) 2.0 of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). From these references were evaluated in a preliminary way the home pages of each university using specialized automatic tools such as TAW and eXaminator. All proved to be inaccessible sites with problems, warnings and unverifiable, the most recurrent weaknesses being the absence of alternative texts in images, videos or other elements that require it, identical links with different destinations, among other errorsthat are basic requirements