Authors:
Lourdes Moreno
;
Ana Iglesias
and
Paloma Martínez
Affiliation:
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Keyword(s):
Multimedia accessibility, usability, user interfaces, user needs, adaptability, caption, audio description.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Accessibility Issues and Technology
;
Data Engineering
;
Multimedia and User Interfaces
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
;
Web Personalization
Abstract:
This paper emphasises the importance of providing accessibility of Web-based information resources for
everybody, not only for people with disabilities. Due to the continuous technical and social changes of the Web, it is necessary to have in mind that new scenarios and user behaviour are appearing. Nowadays, most of Web sites use multimedia resources and it is indispensable to provide accessibility not only to the resource content, but the access to the resource in the Web site. This work summarises some items to take into account in order to make accessible a multimedia resource and present some best practices including on-line multimedia resources in a Web site.