Web Accesible Design Centred on User Experience

An accessible web page needs to follow the rules marked by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and WCAG 2.0 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines). The problem of the rules AA of web accessibility is that they are centered on the programming requisites more than the user needs for graphic design, functionalities or content. An important factor to take in account in accessibility standards is the lack of distinction between the different user’s profiles, since every type of disability will have particular requisites it will be difficult that standards adapt themselves to the needs of the final user. With the target of improving the reliability of the information obtained in studies of accessibility for web pages a project based on the integration of different methodologies has been realized. The methodological design applied in this study centers on the participation of the users like principal item to obtain significant results. Using methods centered on users more than accessibility standards allows obtaining reliable information about the real needs of the users. Departing from this basis is able to get a web site design properly adapted to the user’s needs.