Arias Badia, BlancaTorner, Sergi2023-09-192023-09-192023Arias-Badia B, Torner S. Bridging the gap between website accessibility and lexicography: information access in online dictionaries. Univ Access Inf Soc. 2023. [16 p.] DOI: 10.1007/s10209-023-01031-91615-5289http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57912Information 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.application/pdfeng© The Author(s) 2023. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10209-023-01031-9Website accessibilityLexicographyOnline dictionariesInformation accessUnderstandabilityPerceivabilityWCAG principlesEasy-to-understand contentinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess