Evaluating Web Accessibility Metrics for Jordanian Universities

Kamal, Israa Wahbi; Wahsheh, Heider A.; Alsmadi, Izzat; Al-Kabi, Mohammed N.

doi:10.14569/ijacsa.2016.070716

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“…Similar studies have also been conducted to evaluate the accessibility of government websites in Bangladesh [11], Dubai [12], India [13] [14], Saudi Arabia [15] [16], Turkey [17], Kyrgyz Republic [18], Malaysia [19], and the United States [20]. Also in these studies [21] [22][23] [24] [25], they evaluated the accessibility of education websites. Khan, et al [26] conducted another study manually by using WCAG 2.0.…”

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Accessibility Analysis of Websites of Provincial Governments in Indonesia

SetyaningNastiti

Deastu

Marthasari

2022

KINETIK

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Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use, navigate, and interact with the website. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has provided important guidelines on web accessibility known as the Web Content Accessible Guidelines (WCAG). The Indonesian government encourages the use of new media, namely website, via Presidential Instruction number 3 of 2003 concerning the National Policy and Strategy for e-government development, which mandates every government agency to build a website. In the previous study, the tools used had limitations and were unable to complete the websites evaluation. Therefore, in this study, WCAG 2.0 standard was applied to analyze the websites of provincial governments in Indonesia. Two accessibility evaluation tools were employed, namely TAW and aXe. In addition, for data analysis and interpretation, descriptive statistics and normality tests were applied. The results showed that the most common violation was found in perceivable principle. It was expected that the findings of this study could provide insight and recommendation for web developers working on provincial government website in Indonesia.

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Accessibility Analysis of Websites of Provincial Governments in Indonesia

SetyaningNastiti

Deastu

Marthasari

2022

KINETIK

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“…With the growing number of users (including traditionally marginalized groups such as people with disabilities) interacting the web over time, the increased adequacy of web accessibility has become more relevant as to represent all of them [2]. "Web accessibility is the concept of providing web content that is universally accessible to different machines and people with different ages, skills, education levels, and abilities" [3]. However, the prevalence of web accessibility is found to be lacking when it comes to countries in Africa [4], where around 40 percent of the total population suffers from sort of disability, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) [5].…”

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“…The National Institute of Statistics of Mozambique, INE is also responsible for census reporting [6]. Sida [6], have argued that INE lacks specific instructions and funding to collect information regarding disability and the different studies results reflect the absence of a commonly agreed definition 3 of disability and poor data collection methods. Sida is a government agency working on behalf of the Swedish Parliament and Government to reduce poverty in the world [6].…”

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Web Accessibility and Web Developer Attitudes Towards Accessibility in Mozambique

Gupta

Gjøsæter

2021

Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design Methods and User Experience

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People with disabilities are found to be severely affected by barriers in websites and other web services. This paper aims to study the web accessibility issues in Mozambique and to review the factors that contribute to it. The case study is based on results from 2 perspectives: first, automatic evaluation of five prominent national websites, and second through fieldwork, interviewing and interacting with web developers in Mozambique. The study found that none of the websites are WCAG 2.1 compatible and the web developers, in general, do not consider web accessibility in their products and services. The underlying factors responsible for web inaccessibility are found out to be extrinsic.

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“…Bearing in mind that older people are considered one of the main groups at risk in this pandemic, it is especially important that they are the ones who have the most access to the content offered by information sources such as the WHO [ 9 ]. From the point of view of web accessibility, it should be emphasised how few studies have been carried out on international and official organisations with important social responsibilities such as the WHO, as they are more oriented towards the education sector such as universities and local corporations such as town councils [ 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ]. Most of these studies do not focus on recent recommendations but only on some that have been detected in the area of education [ 15 , 16 ]; likewise, studies have shown that citizens’ dependence on the media is more intense in crisis situations [ 17 ].…”

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Exploring WHO Communication during the COVID 19 Pandemic through the WHO Website Based on W3C Guidelines: Accessible for All?

Fernández-Díaz

Iglesias-Sánchez

Jambrino-Maldonado

2020

IJERPH

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Health crisis situations generate greater attention and dependence on reliable and truthful information from citizens, especially from those organisations that represent authority on the subject, such as the World Health Organization (WHO). In times of global pandemics such as COVID-19, the WHO message “health for all” takes on great communicative importance, especially from the point of view of the prevention of the disease and recommendations for action. Therefore, any communication must be understandable and accessible by all types of people, regardless of their technology, language, culture or disability (physical or mental), according to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), taking on special relevance for public health content. This study analysed whether the WHO is accessible in its digital version for all groups of citizens according to the widely accepted standards in the field of the Internet. The conclusion reached was that not all the information is accessible in accordance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1, which implies that there are groups that are, to some extent, left out, especially affecting the elderly. This study can contribute to the development of proposals and suggest ways in which to improve the accessibility of health content to groups especially vulnerable in this pandemic.

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Evaluating Web Accessibility Metrics for Jordanian Universities

Cited by 8 publications

References 23 publications

Accessibility Analysis of Websites of Provincial Governments in Indonesia

Accessibility Analysis of Websites of Provincial Governments in Indonesia

Web Accessibility and Web Developer Attitudes Towards Accessibility in Mozambique

Exploring WHO Communication during the COVID 19 Pandemic through the WHO Website Based on W3C Guidelines: Accessible for All?

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