Accessible tourism experiences: the voice of people with visual disabilities

Devile, Eugénia Lima; Kastenholz, Elisabeth

doi:10.4324/9780429290077-6

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“…The interpersonal constraints comprise no companion and the influence of family and friends. The main intrapersonal barrier includes health condition, age, personal fear, personal skill and lack of interest (Nyaupane and Andereck, 2008;Devile and Kastenholz, 2018). Meskele et al (2018) described that there are various tourism challenges related to accessibility in tourist facilities and attraction sites which disproportionately affect the tourism experience of disabled people (Natalia et al, 2019).…”

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Compliance of accessibility in tourism websites: a pledge towards disability

Singh

Ismail²,

Sibi

et al. 2020

JHTI

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the US states and territories’ official tourism information websites based on the Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) and Section 508 guidelines to identify the compliance of websites towards disabilities policies and their behaviour pattern.Design/methodology/approachThe official tourism websites of 57 states and territories were analysed through the TAW tool for WCAG 2.0 and AChecker for Section 508. Cluster analysis was used to produce a group of websites underlying the accessibility issues obtained from the online tool to understand the common pattern of behaviour.FindingsThe result revealed that websites have serious and significant accessibility issues underlying the prescribed guidelines that would interfere with the use of the website by disabled people. The main issues that make the website least accessible focussed on the following guideline of WCAG 2.0: compatible, navigable, text alternative, distinguishable and adaptable.Research limitations/implicationsThe empirical results provide the US states and territories’ tourism authority to better understand web accessibility in their websites and its impact on disabled people.Originality/valueAs the web plays an important role in individual lives, this study highlights the accessibility issues which need immediately focussed and technically planned actions from the respective states and territories to ensure that designed web content should communicate effectively and universally.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Compliance of accessibility in tourism websites: a pledge towards disability

Singh

Ismail²,

Sibi

et al. 2020

JHTI

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“…The participation in music festivals is very important to people with and without disabilities. However, PwD frequently face more structural, intrapersonal and interpersonal constraints (Daniels et al, 2005;Devile and Kastenholz, 2018) to participating in this kind of cultural and recreational activities. To date, no study was found that analyses the accessibility level of these events.…”

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“…Several studies on tourism for PwD have used the leisure constraints theory (e.g., Daniels et al, 2005;Devile and Kastenholz, 2018) to explain why PwD do not travel and to identify facilitators or negotiation strategies to overcome these constraints. According to Nyaupane and Andereck (2008), one model that has been used to facilitate the study of leisure constraints, proposed by Crawford and Godbey (1987), categorises the constraints into three groups: intrapersonal (related to psychological states and attributes of individuals that influence their preferences), interpersonal (related to social interaction or relationships among people within social context that influence preferences as well as participation) and structural (related to the external context of the individual which includes, for example, lack of time, financial constraints, transportation difficulties and lack of suitable and reliable information).…”

Section: Accessible Tourismmentioning

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Assessing social media accessibility: the case of the Rock in Rio Lisboa music festival

Dinis

Eusébio

Breda

2020

IJEFM

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PurposeThis paper aims to present a framework to analyse whether information published on social media is accessible for people with disabilities (PwD), namely, visual and hearing disabilities, with an application to a music festival.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology used in this exploratory study consists of establishing a recommended framework to assess social media accessibility for PwD, especially for people with visual and hearing disabilities (PwVHD), and analyse, through an observation grid, if the information published on the official pages of the “Rock in Rio Lisboa” music festival on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube is accessible for this target audience.FindingsThe results indicate that, although the Rock in Rio Lisboa music festival is promoted as a festival for all, posts on social media are not accessible for people with visual and/or hearing disabilities and do not meet most of the defined parameters established in the proposed assessment framework.Originality/valueSocial media accessibility has not been analysed in previous research in the tourism context. This paper aims to fill in the void by establishing criteria and parameters that can serve as a basis for a framework for accessibility assessment in social media for PwVHD.

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“…Pariwisata yang dapat diakses dapat menjadi suatu alat untuk aktualisasi pribadi dari penyandang disabilitas, dimana hal ini akan bermanfaat secara langsung untuk penyandang disabilitas dan masyarakat secara keseluruhan, dengan meningkatkan modal sosial yang pada gilirannya akan menjadi lebih berdaya dan aktif dalam dinamika masyarakat yang beragam (Devile & Kastenholz, 2018).…”

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Implementasi Accessible Tourism Di Tmii Jakarta

Lestari¹,

Wiastuti²,

Triana³

2019

jurnal IPTA

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Indonesia is a big country consisting of various tribes and has different cultures from one to another. From this came the idea to create a tourist site with a cultural background. Taman Mini Indonesia Indah is a tourist attraction established since 1975, an attraction with the theme of Indonesian culture. Taman Mini Indonesia Indah is still a tourist destination that has been chosen by many families. Likewise, schools that still do a lot of tourist visits for study tours Visitors to Taman Mini Indonesia Indah are still the second most in Jakarta. With the development of tourism, the concept of tourism for all it becomes an absolute necessity. Because throughout the world there is also a very significant increase in the number of tourists, and ten percent have special needs including elderly people, tourists with small children, pregnant women, tourists with permanent and temporary disabilities. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to find out to what extent Taman Mini Indonesia Indah has implemented accessibility in tourism in accordance with standards set by the UNWTO. The method used is descriptive qualitative, where data is obtained through field research, documentation, checklists and literature studies. The results of the study are found that vertical movements still need to be improved because visitors using a wheelchair cannot enjoy all the regional platforms. And the suggestion from the research is to continue to improve the facilities so that everyone can access them by adding braille letters to the brochure and adding audio announcements to every tourist attraction.

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Accessible tourism experiences: the voice of people with visual disabilities

Cited by 23 publications

References 1 publication

Compliance of accessibility in tourism websites: a pledge towards disability

Compliance of accessibility in tourism websites: a pledge towards disability

Assessing social media accessibility: the case of the Rock in Rio Lisboa music festival

Implementasi Accessible Tourism Di Tmii Jakarta

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