Arquitetura de informação e acessibilidade Web: usabilidade com foco nos usuários com necessidades especiais

Abstract

This paper aims to present a review of academic publications and Brazilian and international organizations dealing with the issue related to accessibility. Additionally, there is the purpose of demonstrating how Information Architecture, information architects and other professionals involved in developing websites that can help them to be accessible to people with special needs permanent or temporary. Describes the main technologies, software, hardware and resources that enable access to information in web environments for people with special needs. It was concluded that bias, lack of information and lack of specific disciplines in universities are barriers to the most comprehensive and satisfactoryimplementation of accessibility in web environments.