A longitudinal study of state government homepage accessibility in Maryland and the role of web page templates for improving accessibility

Lazar, Jonathan; Wentz, Brian; Almalhem, Abdulelah; Catinella, Alexander; Antonescu, Catalin; Aynbinder, Yeveniy; Bands, Michael; Bastress, Edward; Chan, Brandon; Chelden, Brian; Feustel, Darin; Gautam, Nabin; Gregg, Whitney; Heppding, Michael; Householder, Cory; Libby, Alex; Melton, Corey; Olgren, Jack; Palestino, Loren; Ricks, Morgan; Rinebold, Scott; Seidel, Matthew J

doi:10.1016/j.giq.2013.03.003

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“…Part of the problem is a lack of exposure to accessibility during training [13,25,47]. Most web designers and developers have little or no experience to ensure that their code meets accessibility requirements.…”

Section: ) Lack Of Trainingmentioning

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“…[1,25,47]. There is not much information about the difficulties that evaluators may face when assessing accessibility using these tools [35].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Automated tools are normally broad in that they apply specific accessibility standards or guidelines and produce a list of automatically www.ijacsa.thesai.org detected problems [47]. Automated testing covers only a small proportion of WCAG 2.0 and is unable to check every aspect of accessibility [56], but they are possibly able to flag items that need to be manually checked.…”

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Web Accessibility Challenges

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2016

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Abstract-Despite the importance of web accessibility in recent years, websites remain partially or completely inaccessible to certain sectors of the population. This is due to several reasons, including web developers' little or no experience in accessibility and the lack of accurate information about the best ways to quickly and easily identify accessibility problems using different Accessibility Evaluation Methods (AEMs). This paper surveys accessibility literature and presents a general overview of the primary challenges of accessibility barriers on websites. In this sense, we critically investigate main challenges forms related to accessibility including standards and guidelines (WCAG 2.0), during website's design and development and during evaluation. Finally, a set of recommendations such as enforcing accessibility legislations are presented to overcome some challenges.

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Section: ) Lack Of Trainingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[1,25,47]. There is not much information about the difficulties that evaluators may face when assessing accessibility using these tools [35].…”

Section: ) Automated Testing Problemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: ) Automated Testing Problemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Web Accessibility Challenges

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Basir³

2016

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“…Moreover, web accessibility has been evaluated over time. A longitudinal study of state government homepage accessibility in Maryland indicated that there were slight improvements in accessibility from 2009 to 2012 [13]. Another study found that the average accessibility level of social work education websites increased significantly from 2003 to 2008 [14].…”

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Evaluation of web accessibility in China: changes from 2009 to 2013

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Zhou

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Univ Access Inf Soc

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“…Previous studies have discussed the accessibility issue on websites in general (including libraries) (Brobst, 2009;Byerley & Chambers, 2002;Curl & Bowers, 2009;Farrelly, 2011;Green & Huprich, 2009;Lazar et al, 2012;Lilly & Fleet, 2000;Mates, 2004;Providenti & Zai, 2007b;Schmetzke & Comeaux, 2009;Wentz, Cirba, Kharal, Moran, & Slate, 2012;Yu & Lau, 2006), or on government websites (Abu-Doush, Bany-Mohammed, Ali, & Al-Betar, 2013;Brobst, 2012;Jaeger, 2004Jaeger, , 2006Jaeger, , 2008Jaeger & Matteson, 2009;Jaeger et al, 2013;Lazar et al, 2013). According to previous studies done about a decade ago, there are several critical barriers to compliance with Web accessibility: budget constraints, lacks of perception, skills, and knowledge, and absence of authoritative guidelines (Brophy & Craven, 2007, as cited in Disability Rights Commission (United Kingdom), 2004.…”

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Compliance of Section 508 in public library systems with the largest percentage of underserved populations

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Government Information Quarterly

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A longitudinal study of state government homepage accessibility in Maryland and the role of web page templates for improving accessibility

Cited by 27 publications

References 11 publications

Web Accessibility Challenges

Web Accessibility Challenges

Evaluation of web accessibility in China: changes from 2009 to 2013

Compliance of Section 508 in public library systems with the largest percentage of underserved populations

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