Accessibility using information and communication technologies

Abstract

Knowledge or information society is evolving constantly, and it affects the greatest part of the world’s population in all the areas of daily life. This brings harnessed the appearance of different technological devices which are every time more sophisticated but which quickly become obsolete because of the appearance of others that are more attractive in terms of their design or innovative apps.

One of the essential aspects of the knowledge society is to have access to a great amount of available information in the different media, having the chance to share it with an unlimited number of people through virtual networks, which can generate big advantages. This is how the objective of this work was to analyze the elements that facilitate and hinder the accessibility to the information not only to disable people or people in needs of special education but also to all people or users who need access to information contained in documents, a presentation or a web site; that is, to access aspects that are not always known, considered or valued from the people who have the great responsibility of transmitting information.

Conocimiento Educactivo, Vol. 4, 2017: 25-38