Bridging the gap between website accessibility and lexicography: information access in online dictionaries
Information access has been one of the main concerns of lexicography since the frst dictionaries were compiled. This paper draws an explicit link between the proposals made from the felds of applied linguistics and website accessibility to enhance the users’ experience in consulting online dictionar...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) |
| Repositorio: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:recercat.cat:10230/57912 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57912 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10209-023-01031-9 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Website accessibility Lexicography Online dictionaries Information access Understandability Perceivability WCAG principles Easy-to-understand content |
| Sumario: | Information access has been one of the main concerns of lexicography since the frst dictionaries were compiled. This paper draws an explicit link between the proposals made from the felds of applied linguistics and website accessibility to enhance the users’ experience in consulting online dictionaries. The paper starts with a refection on two intertwined notions that are relevant for the discussion: Access and accessibility. After that, it focuses on elements connected to two Web Content Accessibility Guidelines principles, namely perceivability and understandability. It refects on real practices regarding the way in which information is structured in today’s dictionaries, the use of text alternatives, typographic choice, the writing of defnitions, and the use of abbreviations, and proposes measures to tackle the identifed challenges. The implementation of easy-to-understand language is highlighted as a relevant resource for prospective lexicographic projects. |
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