Accessibility Testing of Digital Cultural Heritage

In the paper we discuss the problem of building a web site that is accessible to the people with different disabilities. We show some basic guidelines that should be followed by the web site developers in order to complete this task. Also, some special web content accessibility testing tools are pre...

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Main Authors: Galina Bogdanova, Todor Todorov, Nikolay Noev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics 2020-09-01
Series:Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage
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Online Access:https://dipp.math.bas.bg/dipp/article/view/116
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description In the paper we discuss the problem of building a web site that is accessible to the people with different disabilities. We show some basic guidelines that should be followed by the web site developers in order to complete this task. Also, some special web content accessibility testing tools are presented. Finally, we make special attention to accessibility of some of the most popular digital cultural heritage web archives.
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spelling doaj.art-3c84447d28754709ac3ab05146913ac62022-12-22T02:42:50ZengBulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mathematics and InformaticsDigital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage1314-40062535-03662020-09-011010.55630/dipp.2020.10.16Accessibility Testing of Digital Cultural HeritageGalina Bogdanova0Todor Todorov1Nikolay Noev2Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, BulgariaInstitute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria; St. St. Cyril and Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Veliko Tarnovo, BulgariaInstitute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, BulgariaIn the paper we discuss the problem of building a web site that is accessible to the people with different disabilities. We show some basic guidelines that should be followed by the web site developers in order to complete this task. Also, some special web content accessibility testing tools are presented. Finally, we make special attention to accessibility of some of the most popular digital cultural heritage web archives.https://dipp.math.bas.bg/dipp/article/view/116AccessibilityDigital Cultural HeritageEuropeana
spellingShingle Galina Bogdanova
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Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage
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Digital Cultural Heritage
Europeana
title Accessibility Testing of Digital Cultural Heritage
title_full Accessibility Testing of Digital Cultural Heritage
title_fullStr Accessibility Testing of Digital Cultural Heritage
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Digital Cultural Heritage
Europeana
url https://dipp.math.bas.bg/dipp/article/view/116
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