Aplicación web informativa de accesibilidad para personas con discapacidad motriz y sensorial en instituciones públicas en el Distrito Metropolitano de Quito

Abstract

In Ecuador, there is no centralized public information that shows whether public institutions have compliance on infrastructure accessibility for people with disabilities. This lack of information doesn’t allow people with motor and sensory skill disabilities to know the physical environment in which they will be operating.

This inclusion project proposes to develop a web application that provides information about the accessibility offered in public institutions for people with motor, visual and hearing disabilities. This will provide a better service to disable citizens in the Distrito Metropolitano de Quito.

The application was developed by combining the agile methodology Scrum and User Experience (UX), also using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. This application is seeking to provide accessible and accurate information for end users in an efficient and versatile manner.

To test the web application efficiency, usability testing was performed by applying the MARS scale and accessibility with the WAVE and AChecker tools. According to MARS, an average of 4.25 out 5 end users were satisfied with the web application developed. In conclusion, this web application is proposing a solution to provide accessible information for people with disabilities in public institutions.