Una imagen vale más que 1.000 palabras: representa las entradas del menú de la página web con imágenes para personas con discapacidades de aprendizaje

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1984-7939.2017v2n2p271

Palabras clave:

Representación pictórica, Diseño de sitio web, Dificultades de aprendizaje

Resumen

El uso de imágenes, símbolos y otras representaciones pictóricas en los sitios web es una práctica común e insiste en la literatura sobre diseño web, particularmente con respecto a las personas con discapacidades de aprendizaje. Sin embargo, hay una escasez de literatura sobre la eficacia del uso de imágenes de esta manera, y sobre lo que podría ser la representación pictórica más efectiva de varios temas relacionados con la "transición": el cambio del entorno protector del mundo escolar al mundo de los adultos. empleo apoyado y más vida independiente. El objetivo del estudio fue determinar cuáles fueron las representaciones más efectivas de los temas relacionados con la transición, como el ocio, la salud y la educación, con respecto a tres tipos de representación fotográfica y artística: fotos, iconos y Widgits. El estudio se llevó a cabo en dos etapas. Una etapa cualitativa exploró los significados dados a varias fotos e íconos, seleccionados de sitios web y literatura apropiados. La segunda etapa consistió en un ejercicio en línea, en el que los participantes se presentan con varias fotos u otras representaciones y seleccionan a qué categoría pertenecen (salud, trabajo, etc.). Los resultados sugirieron que, si bien intuitivamente es sensato, el uso de la representación pictórica puede no ayudar realmente a la comprensión del contenido, debido a las dificultades inherentes al intento de encapsular conceptos dentro de una única representación. Temas más concretos como Amigos, son más fáciles de representar pictóricamente que conceptos tales como Soporte o Seguridad. Las representaciones más efectivas fueron fotográficas, siendo Widgits la menos efectiva. A partir de estos resultados, podría obtenerse un buen argumento para la reproducción de audio de las etiquetas.

Biografía del autor/a

Peter Williams, University College London (UCL)

Investigador postdoctoral, Departamento de Estudios de la Información, University College London, Reino Unido.

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2018-09-14

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WILLIAMS, Peter. Una imagen vale más que 1.000 palabras: representa las entradas del menú de la página web con imágenes para personas con discapacidades de aprendizaje. Educação em Análise, Londrina, v. 2, n. 2, p. 271–302, 2018. DOI: 10.5433/1984-7939.2017v2n2p271. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/educanalise/article/view/32219. Acesso em: 4 jul. 2024.

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