Digital Accessibility of Educational Information Content Taking into Account the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
https://doi.org/10.35596/1729-7648-2025-31-2-59-68
Abstract
The importance of developing educational web content for users with disabilities, in particular, visual, hearing, motor and cognitive impairments, is shown. Legislative norms and key principles of Web Content Acces sibility Guidelines standards aimed at adapting digital platforms to users with disabilities are considered. Speciali zed tools for automated testing and analysis of various aspects of web page accessibility are outlined. An asses sment of the digital accessibility of the university web resource is given and recommendations for its improvement are given, in terms of accessibility of resources for users with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive impairments.
About the Authors
E. S. Piskun
Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
Belarus
Belarus
Piskun Ekaterina Sergeevna, Cand. Sci. (Econ.), Associate Professor at the Department of Design Information and Computer Systems
220013, Minsk, P. Brovki St., 6
Tel.: +375 17 292-20-80
U. A. Maksimchuk
Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
Belarus
Belarus
Student
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Piskun E.S., Maksimchuk U.A. Digital Accessibility of Educational Information Content Taking into Account the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Digital Transformation. 2025;31(2):59-68. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.35596/1729-7648-2025-31-2-59-68
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