Panamanian society has been a victim of an uncontrolled development web sites, which includes the absence of guidelines. This affects the credibility of both the information posted on the pages, and the specialists who develop these resources. You need to know and distinguish what is and what is not a site that promotes knowledge, that is why our aim is to determine the status of compliance of websites developed in Panama, and provide a list of tools to detect quality failures in an easier way. This exploratory research is conducted submitting forty- six (46) Panamanian sites of companies and institutions, to a tool with the highest evaluation value, which is TAW, and that detects as many violations of the principles and guidelines proposed by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
In addition, we include a validation using a check list, with the most relevant visual characteristics and quality indicators. The contribution of this study, promises to exceed our expectations, especially for the amount of information that, until now has been obtained, as the wide variety of tools and standards available for assessing websites. We propose the use of best practices and methodologies of work in that aspect, allowing the deployment of a different working culture based on international standards. This study presents the faults that mostly occur in websites, of companies or government institutions. It also suggests the need to strengthen the use of best practices by webmasters, and alerts the users to demand a change of culture based on international standards.
Este obra está bajo una licencia de Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional.
