An empirical WCAG 2.0 guidelines evaluation applied to journal management software

Abstract

Web Accessibility has become a main concern of building websites that are accessible by all people regardless of their ability or disability. The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has been established to raise awareness of universal access. WAI develops guidelines which can help to ensure that Web pages are widely accessible. This article exposes an approach to determine the Web Accessibility evaluation applied to an e-journal open system, using an automatic validator following the WCAG 2.0 guidelines. The results obtained allow modifying the software in order to increase accessibility on e-journal platforms that are provided by institutes. Results show accessibility errors on the software evaluate. Finally, some considerations are presented.