Guía para el diseño de sitios web de instituciones de educación superior basado en el estándar wcag 2.1 aplicado a discapacidades visuales.

this paper presents the development of a guide for the design of Higher Education Institutions (hei) websites based on the wcag 2.1 standard applied to visual disabilities. For this purpose, proposals that guide the design of accessible hei websites were identified, based on the findings and the wcag 2.1 standard; a guide that facilitates the design of hei websites applied to visual disabilities was specified; then the level of compliance obtained by the Univida website when applying the proposed guide was evaluated. The taw online tool was used as the evaluation method. The results show that the proposals analyzed focus on evaluating the accessibility of websites; however, none of them are specifically oriented to webmasters, developers and web designers, nor do they focus on the design of hei websites for the visually impaired. It was also evidenced that, when applying the guide on the selected website, from a total of 433 errors in the first analysis it was reduced to 14 in a second analysis for compliance levels a, aa and aaa. This work allows us to conclude that there is a growing interest among researchers and higher education institutions in designing inclusive institutional websites and virtual learning platforms, which not only consider the information needs and the attractive impact of their design, but also focus on the population with disabilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]