Using SVG to develop web maps for people with visual disabilities

This paper addresses the problem of accessibility in geographical web maps. A person with disability cannot use, nowadays, a web map with the same functionality as other users do. This problem signifies a huge gap in universal usability, since a wide range of people are left out. This contravenes clearly the principles of the Web, which was created to be of the benefit of anyone in any circumstances. Some software projects have tackled this issue by providing an additional version of the program or just by not dealing with it at all. Our stance is to take a step further and integrate completely the accessibility within the user experience. Everything needed to use the web map –with or without disabilities– is deployed on the same view every user interacts with. This means that an accessible web map has been successfully developed, allowing users with disabilities to explore and navigate not in the same way, but with the same results which others benefit from. This solution opens a discussion about good ways of achieving accessibility, the implications of the current state of art in actual software development and the current awareness about this topic in the computer community

Using SVG to develop web maps for people with visual disabilities

This paper addresses the problem of accessibility in geographical web maps. A person with disability cannot use, nowadays, a web map with the same functionality as other users do. This problem signifies a huge gap in universal usability, since a wide range of people are left out. This contravenes clearly the principles of the Web, which was created to be of the benefit of anyone in any circumstances. Some software projects have tackled this issue by providing an additional version of the program or just by not dealing with it at all. Our stance is to take a step further and integrate completely the accessibility within the user experience. Everything needed to use the web map –with or without disabilities– is deployed on the same view every user interacts with. This means that an accessible web map has been successfully developed, allowing users with disabilities to explore and navigate not in the same way, but with the same results which others benefit from. This solution opens a discussion about good ways of achieving accessibility, the implications of the current state of art in actual software development and the current awareness about this topic in the computer community

Volume 31, Number 4, December 2011 OLAC Newsletter

Digitized December 2011 issue of the OLAC Newsletter

Safe and Sound: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International Conference on Auditory Display

Complete proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD2022), June 24-27. Online virtual conference

Análisis comparativo de los subencabezamientos de forma independientes en lengua española

La presente tesis exhibe la variedad lingüística que existe en la lengua española, a través del estudio de los subencabezamientos de forma independientes, establecidos en la sección H 1095 del Subject Headings Manual de la Library of Congress de Estados Unidos, incluidos en las listas de encabezamientos de materia en lengua española. Pese a que en Hispanoamérica se habla una misma lengua, cada país presenta sus particularidades de tipo cultural y social, lo que la hace una lengua con múltiples matices lingüísticos presentes en su léxico. Esto influye ampliamente en los vocablos utilizados para describir el contenido de las obras. Para evitar caer en los accidentes propios del significado, como la polisemia, la antonimia, la homonimia y la sinonimia, se han desarrollado lenguajes controlados. Los lenguajes controlados cumplen con normas y estándares para su desarrollo, lo que les permite la compatibilidad en su aplicación y el establecimiento de redes de cooperación. Entre estos lenguajes se encuentran las listas de encabezamientos de materia, empleadas para la indización en las unidades de información, principalmente en las bibliotecas. Aunque existen un gran número de listas editadas en lengua española, no siempre se han actualizado, quedándose muchas de ellas obsoletas, ante el ingreso de la nueva terminología nacida de las constantes innovaciones tecnológicas. Los resultados obtenidos en esta investigación, ofrecen la oportunidad de conocer la variedad de la lengua española y la situación en que se encuentran los subencabezamientos, que se aplican como unidades lingüísticas, para describir la forma de un documento. Como producto final, se ofrece una herramienta que incluye cada una de las variantes en lengua española, que se identifican en las listas de encabezamientos hispanoamericanas