Development of a checklist for the evaluation of the web accessibility for the aged users

This paper presents an approach to create checklists, and to explain how it is used to develop a technique for assessing the Web interfaces accessibility focused on aged users. The observation of aged users interacting with a Web communication tool leaded to the research about recommendations to Web accessibility, especially those centered on aged users. Thus, the selected recommendations originated the first version of the checklist, which passed through three evolutionary cycles of improvement and tests until arrive to the final version. This paper also intends to sensitize the Web content creators about the questions related to these contents accessibility.