Acessibilidade em portais de transparência

Abstract

In 2007, the Open Government Working Group -a group of open government advocates- defined that public data is accessible if available to the widest range of users, for the widest variety of purposes; from that definition, this dissertation is about the accessibility of financial transparency data. General considerations on administrative transparency are presented, with an overview of budget data diffusion initiatives in Brazil and data reuse. Accessibility in transparency portals is related to the following characteristics: use of plain language, data visualization, usability, mobile accessibility, user-centered design and, finally, compliance with e-Mag standards Brazilian Model of Accessibility in Electronic Government. The initial and expense pages on transparency portals of the 10 most populous cities of São Paulo Metropolitan Region were evaluated, and large errors related to e-Mag tagging section were obsenved, especialy disregard for Web standards. On mobile accessibility, only 3 sites had mobille optimized versions, also only 3 sites presented data in visual format. Regarding usability and design, 4 sites did not have a search tool, and 2 portals presented excess of information on evaluated pages