2002
DOI: 10.1108/07378830210432552
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An accessibility assessment of selected Web‐based health information resources

Abstract: The Internet has created new opportunities to make quality health information more widely available to both researchers and the general public. However, not all that information has been presented in a format accessible to people with disabilities. This accessibility assessment of eight selected Web‐based health information resources (PubMed, OVID MEDLINE, MEDLINEplus, CANCERLIT, the Hazardous Substance Data Bank, TOXLINE, and two databases of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)) evaluates the ease with which t… Show more

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“…These results are mirrored in the work of Williams and Rattray (2003), where only 17% of UK-based accountancy firms passed at the Priority 1 level. Perhaps even more disappointingly, McCord et al (2002) on testing the accessibility of Web-based health information resources using screen readers and an automated software checker found none completely accessible.…”
Section: A Review Of Previous Accessibility Surveysmentioning
confidence: 93%
“…These results are mirrored in the work of Williams and Rattray (2003), where only 17% of UK-based accountancy firms passed at the Priority 1 level. Perhaps even more disappointingly, McCord et al (2002) on testing the accessibility of Web-based health information resources using screen readers and an automated software checker found none completely accessible.…”
Section: A Review Of Previous Accessibility Surveysmentioning
confidence: 93%
“…For individuals with disabilities, this way of accessing information may be the preferred method for obtaining supplemental healthcare information. Little is known, however, about the accessibility of the content of these online health information websites (Mancini, Zedda, & Barbaro, 2005; McCord, Frederiksen, & Campbell, 2002). This proposed study will make a significant contribution to the existing body of knowledge by providing an accurate depiction of the accessibility of these websites, and will also identify the barriers that impede attaining full accessibility.…”
Section: Patient Heal Thyself! Advocating For Accessible Healthcare mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Internet has been successfully used to make quality health information widely available, to the point where it is available anywhere and anytime – but not to everyone! Consumer healthcare websites have been found to have problems in making their content readily available to individuals with disabilities (McCord, Frederiksen, & Campbell, 2002).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Five studies (Bowman, 2002;Chambers, 2002, 2003;Horwath, 2002;McCord et al, 2002) examined the accessibility of online indexes and databases, including those with broad-range coverage, such as Ebscohost and Proquest Research Library, and those that are subject-specific, such as Medline and Cancerlit; one study (Coonin, 2002)) focused on the accessibility of electronic journals. Schmetzke (2002) summarized the findings in the above studies using a five-point scale ranging from "very accessible" to "absolutely inaccessible" -with accessibility "mildly reduced", "significantly reduced" and "severely reduced" occupying the in-between points: Of the 14 resources investigated by Bowman (2002); Chambers (2002, 2003); Horwath (2002); McCord et al (2002), the majority (ten) fell in the "mildly reduced accessibility" category, while three were best described as having "significantly reduced accessibility". Extreme cases were rare: Whereas only one index/database interface was described as "very accessible", none of the resources fell into the "severely reduced LHT 23,2 accessibility" or "absolutely inaccessible" categories.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%