Un acercamiento para lograr la inmersión en la sociedad de la información de personas con algún tipo de discapacidad: el caso de la discapacidad auditiva severa

Abstract

This paper purposes a way along which emerging design and programming techniques can be used for conversion and construction of accessible web sites. Accessibility, in web application environment, is present in different laws in multiple countries, and has to be addressed so that all people, regardless of their condition and nationality, can communicate and use technology without any sort of impediment. This principle is challenged when dealing with people severely disabilities, with whom currently existing difficulties can turn using web sites as gateways to the information society into something almost impossible. People with pre-locutive hearing disability, that is, people who have never been able to hear nor talk, constitute an example. The complexity of learning a language, its writing and the expressions commonly used by non disability people, constitute a mayor entry barrier for them.