L’accessibilité web comme porte et enjeu de médiation des savoirs

Abstract

As indicated in the Europa’s Study report: Web accessibility in European countries published in 2009, web accessibility to digital resources aims to "make the Web and its services available to all individuals, regardless hardware or software, network infrastructure, native language, culture, geographical location and physical abilities." Despite the existence of numerous standards, WCAG or RGAA in France, web developers who are in charge of the sites and digital resources, still hardly incorporate those standards and informational logics. We will first rely on the results of a national survey conducted in 2013 (by Lespinet, Liquète, Pinède et al.) describing the performances and nature of current brakes and second, show that the approach by knowledge mediation in terms of accessibility remains a dimension to query. We try to overcome the approaches of information oriented towards "uses" and to consider a "producers-users interactions" approach, where a part of the mediation aims to fight against the prejudice and blockages of the actors managing and making available digital materials in information systems and websites.

Keywords

• knowledge mediation
• information mediation
• digital mediation
• web accessibility
• representation
• prejudice