EPAA/AAPE is a peer-reviewed, open-access, international, multilingual, and multidisciplinary journal designed for researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and development analysts concerned with education policies. EPAA/AAPE accepts unpublished original manuscripts in English, Spanish and Portuguese without restriction as to conceptual and methodological perspectives, time or place. EPAA/AAPE publishes issues comprised of empirical articles, commentaries, and special issues at roughly weekly intervals, all of which pertain to educational policy, with direct implications for educational policy.
For people with disabilities to have their right to access to information guaranteed, it is essential that the basic premises of digital accessibility are implemented on homepages. This question is even more relevant when related to government websites. This study checked the adequacy of electronic sites of Federal Institutions of Education of Brazil for digital accessibility standards established by the Accessibility Model of Electronic Government (eMAG). The results demonstrate a low adherence to these standards, even the standardized elements of accessibility that, by force of law, should be implemented in all electronic portals of government in the country. This demonstrates that a significant portion of citizens has not been respected, on equal terms, in terms of their right of access to digital information in academic and university environments, which should promote citizenship and create opportunities an education quality for all.
Keywords
digital accessibility; people with disabilities; federal education institutions
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