Web accessibility of the national libraries in Europe and America

Abstract

This paper evaluates and compares the degree of web accessibility offered by national libraries of Europe and America. The "Web Accessibility Test (TAW)" is used to measure web accessibility. TAW use "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0" for evaluation. The results allow to conclude that no national library in Europe and America meets the level of accessibility to 100%, however, in both cases, most of them have an average higher than the rest of compliance. In addition, only it has been found some relationship between web accessibility of national libraries in Europe and the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in the country of belonging, and no correlation in the case of accessibility in America.

Keywords

• Bibliotecas nacionales
• Accesibilidad web
• Europa
• América