Web accessibility of healthcare Web sites of Korean government and public agencies: a user test for persons with visual impairment

Yi, Yong Jeong

doi:10.1007/s10209-018-0625-5

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“…Yi [ 34 ] conducted an automatic and expert accessibility evaluation on a number of Korean government health care websites. The study highlighted critical accessibility problems such as non-compliance with keyboard, color contrast ratios, inappropriate alternative descriptions, mismatches in the default language display and markup, content sequences, and bypass blocks.…”

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Evaluating the accessibility of public health websites: An exploratory cross-country study

Alajarmeh

2021

Univ Access Inf Soc

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Public health websites are regarded as official references that citizens of any country rely on for domestic and individual health affairs. For people with disabilities, public health resources are often of greater importance; they additionally provide disability context-specific information. However, to leverage the benefits of such resources for the widest demographic groups, Web accessibility requirements should be met at an acceptable level (e.g., WCAG 2.0, Level AA). This study evaluates the accessibility of a number of public health websites from 25 countries. The choice of the selected websites is determined by the extent of the COVID-19 outbreak in the corresponding countries and their rank as of late April, 2020. Ultimately, this study aims at shedding light on the current situation of accessibility to health information and pinpointing the aspects where accessibility to information falls short in public health websites. Using different evaluation tools, the overall results show that the vast majority of public health websites, of a number of different countries, still have many critical accessibility barriers, especially with regards to the perception of information and operability of the interface items. The findings of this study suggest a need for major efforts toward ensuring accessible public health resources in most of the evaluated websites. As this pattern has repeatedly occurred in many relevant studies in different parts of the world, legislation along with educating Web developers regarding Web accessibility requirements and universal design principles become an urgent necessity.

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Evaluating the accessibility of public health websites: An exploratory cross-country study

Alajarmeh

2021

Univ Access Inf Soc

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“…Accessibility analysis is the primary objective of this paper. Accessibility analysis has been carried out by various research groups across the globe [ 1 , 3 , 7 , 9 , 10 , 12 , 19 , 21 , 30 , 33 ].…”

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Evaluating web accessibility of educational institutions websites using a variable magnitude approach

Kuppusamy

Balaji

2021

Univ Access Inf Soc

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The World Wide Web serves as an excellent platform for information dissemination. Educational institutions such as universities are utilizing the web medium to reach their target audience. In the post-Covid-19 scenario, the web medium has obtained increased significance as it has become the primary access channel to reach these institutions. In this backdrop, it becomes essential to analyze the accessibility of these sites for students with special needs. This paper presents an approach to compute the accessibility of web pages for persons with disabilities. A variable magnitude approach is proposed in this paper for the computation of accessibility barrier count as a combination of two different components. The proposed approach is experimented with top ranked higher educational institution websites of India. Based on the inferences from the results and inputs received from students with disabilities, a set of suggestions have been compiled by this paper to minimize the barriers faced by persons with disabilities in consuming these web resources.

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“…The accessibility of Korean government and public agency healthcare websites were tested by disabled and non-disabled users. The study revealed mobile accessibility issues and problems for people with visual impairment [62]. An investigation of selected Turkish e-government websites has been conducted to assess whether they are following standards of accessibility, usability, performance, and mobile readiness.…”

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Usability and Accessibility Assessment of Saudi Arabia Mobile E-Government Websites

Al-Sakran

AlSudairi

2021

IEEE Access

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The rapid spread of smart mobile technology is transforming the way how governments provide information and services to their citizens. We all are rely more on our devices, namely smartphones, laptops, or desktop to get information and a wide range of services from government websites. Such heavy usage of government websites results in an increased need for efficient and effective delivery of government services. Therefore, mobile government websites' usability and accessibility are essential dimensions that determine the quality and accessibility of mobile e-government. The main objective of this research is to analyze the accessibility and usability aspects of selected public sector websites in Saudi Arabia. This study investigates how well the Saudi mobile e-government websites comply with usability standards and accessibility guidelines recommended in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Websites assessments were conducted using manual evaluation and complemented by different automated analysis tools. This study applies a number of evaluation techniques to assess Saudi government websites accessed from desktop or mobile devices, such as an automated website testing technique, mobile-friendliness testing, and content observation technique. Various tools have been used for site evaluation, such as GTmetrix (PageSpeed Score, YSlow Score), WAVE, Google mobile-friendly test, and Dareboost for mobile websites. The study uncovers shortcomings regarding non-compliance to international web standards recommendations. The findings revealed usability and accessibility problems that affect the performance of government websites. In order to improve these websites within these aspects, several recommendations were suggested for improving the usability and accessibility of websites in Saudi Arabia that will make sure different groups of citizens are satisfied with the website features and services provided by them.INDEX TERMS accessibility, e-government, mobile website, usability, WCAG.

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Web accessibility of healthcare Web sites of Korean government and public agencies: a user test for persons with visual impairment

Cited by 24 publications

References 8 publications

Evaluating the accessibility of public health websites: An exploratory cross-country study

Evaluating the accessibility of public health websites: An exploratory cross-country study

Evaluating web accessibility of educational institutions websites using a variable magnitude approach

Usability and Accessibility Assessment of Saudi Arabia Mobile E-Government Websites

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