Good morning I think afternoon well my name is Alex I’m from Costa Rica I’m from instituto tecnológico de costa rica I’m going to talk about with accessibility in open access web journals, journals on web this is a little research that we made for some open access web journals, journals on webs we like to test accessible web accessibility of those web journals, journals on webs.
What is accessibility in open access journals?
First of all I want to make a little introduction of what is accessibility other important of that topic disability affects 15% of world population is a lot of people to have any kind of disability of those 645 millions of fair visual or hearing impairment did affect directly the use of the web any kind of content or webpage the disability contains an interaction without environment is because we have our wrong meaning of what is disability because we said person have a disability node is the environment to have that problem the environment have some barriers of problems that made the people can interrupt with that environment for the reason we have to make sure that our environment that could be a building that could be a website have to be well done for all kind of people that World Health Organization proposed making accessible possible for everybody for all conventional system, could be worse for to someone’s who have any disability the situation becomes even more critical for academic sites or academic websites that helps all for example a web journals, journals on web repositories they had to be accessible for every bump for everyone but it is not the the real situation that works s ability 2.
Levels of accessibility in open access journals:
0 the kyln have three different levels how level a and there are the most basic web accessibility web accessibility features there are really basic but they have a big big difference they have the double aid that a biggest and most common bar bigger that you can find the side and you have a triple aid are the highest of more complicated feature to solve okay the objective of the test of their you know research that we made was to evaluate the word sex ability of pages in open access web journals, journals on webs because developers managers and editor has to be aware of that topic it’s because sometimes we think that accessibility is just a thing for developers or designers but is not editors and staff have to be aware of that because some information that you put in the site sometime is the editor or their staff or your assistant and is not the developer and you can make you can follow some guidelines to make the information more accessible the methodology was to find some web journals, journals on webs to test the idea was to test a open access web journals, journals on web because I work in open access web journals, journals on web I’m editor of open access web journals, journals on web and I am on the move it off up next we found on door a 130 for web journals, journals on webs available on both site at the register because the idea that was a officials sites and Official Web journals, journals on web we made an automatic text with this tool source ID there are a lot of tools that you can use to made an accessibility test but we use this one because was really good this tool check that accessibility with those guidelines I mentioned before 1.0 and 2.0.
Also provide another information like broken links the page structure then CIO information you can use that it’s really really okay what about the web journals, journals on webs the we test we have representation from all continents in my new room we have more from you I forgot to mention that the web journals, journals on web was for information and technology category it’s because we need a little representation and we can test like 1000 something we try to select from those specific topics we have different representation here and also we try to identify if they use oh yes or if they use another Platinum to support de the web journals, journals on webs and the 50% used audio system that was really good but not all of them used a version 3 therefore means the bearer would have now have accessibility features a other you say they own development and also use a I saw like Elsevier or something sides of those any of those platforms ok what about their results the first word I I told the first barrier because was really interesting try to access those web journals, journals on webs that have the site into a ad that 21 of those web journals, journals on webs whickering access just try to access that URL it’s just the first page that we’ve made and we have 21 that have one page or partial access uno and no access at all like a patient of phone server internal this is it really critical and other error it is was a very interesting because for me that I don’t have any disability I couldn’t access that information and this is the first barrier that we found with those web journals, journals on web and for the reason we test the other 113 web journals, journals on webist that we could access the content on the page and we could made their best we have 100% of the web journals, journals on webs that we test have accessibility issues in minor or me know my Newton might’ve label but all of them have any one or more issues we found 115 different accessibility issues it was a different accessibility issues but most of them were wearing 90% of the web journals, journals on webs but we have like 10 different issues the world in the majority of the web journals, journals on webs we have a 66% of.
Label a that is I think this is okay because if they have a we have a lot of problem but of the main minor level we have nine percent just for label in double-a and 25% of triple ADA are the biggest problems sometimes that issue that only the developers can solve because something of that structure the page or something like that okay I here I have some representations of the issue of level a because were a lot but I will not just focus on the most frequency that we had the first one we have the highest frequency that 92% of the web journals, journals on web have this issue this really simple bar is easy to solve a boy specifying a new window as the target of a link with RJ blunt it means that when you have for example a visions problem or fee you are in not sign, those are issues that we’ll have for Tripoli also we will have a little frequency that is really good but those are the highest or we need more knowledge to try to solve sometimes have problems or day structured page or also that the papers can solve I have some a some representation some conclusions of the legal test is that the NGO accessibility of okay web journals, journals on webs is a top-down involves different roles I mentioned before such as developer managers and staff we have to have this in mind in adjust our world for developers the continent of paint web journals, journals on webs should be accessible but anyone whether or not to suffer a disability if you have a site that is good for someone with disability could, everything is done no we have to verify if we can make a another thing to guarantee the accessibility in our web journals, journals on web and some recommendation the from the states. Is because I I have see some final uses sunset is fun it is better for reading a 12-point science mini moon is it that recommendation the general recommendation prefer responsive design I am validated in different platforms it’s important that you ensure that the style works in different plans testable accessibility of your web journals, journals on web if you are in charge of a web journals, journals on web and editorial director or something it is important that you aim test your site it releases you can write in Google test accessibility and you have a lot of tools or the goods that we using it in this study and you could be you can see but if your site have problems and how to solve it and for future work we are we were going to test the pages of the site all other pages because now we just test the homepage and like live like article page or the Korean issue and we like to prefer test size using the same platform and to test the articles this is an other world because I’m talking just about the webpage and we talk about document de sisse another another word and when you design build and maintain website we’re accessibility in mind everyone wins this is the final and you you.
Where to find great open access journals?
The promotion of accessibility in open access journals can be greatly aided by global research letters. Online research publications are made freely and unrestrictedly accessible through open access journals, which can aid in democratising knowledge and advancing the spread of scientific knowledge. Open access publications might nevertheless suffer from accessibility problems like linguistic barriers and technology constraints that limit their effect and readership.
Global research letters, which give researchers a place to discuss their work in a variety of languages and formats and encourage the use of accessible design and technology, can help open access journals become more accessible. A wide audience can access many worldwide research letters since they are published in open access journals with features like machine translation, alt-text descriptions for photographs, and accessible PDFs. Global research letters can also aid in extending the reach and impact of open access papers by fostering collaboration and knowledge-sharing across geographical and academic barriers. Researchers can support accessibility initiatives and guarantee that their work is seen by as many people as possible by using global research letters in their studies and publishing in open access, easily available journals.