The accessibility in web sites in the optical of including deaf

Abstract

The Web information technology promotes many facilities to people. It allows them to gain more time in performing transactions, payments, purchases and access to information. However, this type of technology has still been far from the deaf community reality, because of the lack of accessibility provided by these computer systems. In this context, this paper investigates the needs of the deaf community for access to Web sites with support for evaluation mechanisms. Initially, the accessibility guidelines for the deaf were identified using the view of several authors. Afterwards, the accessibility evaluation mechanisms were used to analyze some Web Site News. Thus, it was possible to highlight the positive and negative accessibility issues found in Web Sites.