The Relationship Between Web Content and Web Accessibility at Universities

Lorca, Pedro Tedde de; Andrés, Javier De; Martínez, Ana Belén Barragáns

doi:10.1177/0894439317710435

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“…One benefit of W-A is considerably higher content quality. There is a significant relationship between the level of accessibility and the quality of the web contents (Lorca et al, 2018).…”

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Experiencing information, acquiring knowledge, and making decisions regarding web accessibility

Rusho

Raban

2020

OJAKM

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We address the disparity between availability of information and its actual implementation in decisions in the context of Web Accessibility (W-A). Organizations are aware of the importance of W-A for alleviating barriers to interaction with online platforms, such as visual, motor, hearing, and cognitive impairments. Information regarding inclusion design is abundant but implementation is partial. Applying W-A refers to implementing technical and graphical solutions to assist people with disabilities in access and use of online systems. We hypothesized that people who produce information are more likely to decide to apply W-A than information consumers. A total of 651 participants took part in a set of eight experiments. Consumers read information about W-A and producers created the same information. Decisions regarding applying W-A knowledge were measured before and after information use. Results reveal that (1) collaborative information consumption is related to a change in decision; (2) The extent of change in decision relates to the number of collaborating producers; (3) Collaborative information production increases the intent to make a practical decision to apply W-A. This study emphasizes the interaction between information experience and peer collaboration regarding applying W-A knowledge. Insights contribute to organizations knowledge definitions while highlighting the impact of group activity on decision-making

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“…One benefit of W-A is considerably higher content quality. There is a significant relationship between the level of accessibility and the quality of the web contents (Lorca et al, 2018).…”

Section: Willingness To Support Web Accessibilitymentioning

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Experiencing information, acquiring knowledge, and making decisions regarding web accessibility

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Raban

2020

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“…A comparative web accessibility testing could be the criteria to measure the accessibility issues with respect to various evaluation methods [18]. A theoretical based assessment relative to content high quality was brought with respect to their accessibility degree [19]. It has taken into consideration internet sites of 19 poly technique and 40 university websites of Portugal and determined some usual checkpoint mistakes in the procedure of internet content accessibility examination [21].…”

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A Methodical Search of Web Content Accessibility for Visual Disabled People

2019

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The Internet has revolutionized and became a major option to obtain information. The complete faith of any individual or organization depends on the official website they are using. Therefore, it is the duty of organizations to provide a website design environment in such a way that even a visually disabled person can access the content without any issues. In view of a website content accessibility importance, the present article has reviewed some of the literature to study how the web content accessibility has been done, what architecture they have used, what suggestions they made and the limitations of those studies. The article also studied only the literature that considered W3C WCAG 2.0 guidelines for website evaluation. The main objective of the present article is to summarize the observations of the existing literature and identify the influencing factors on the quality of a website. The present work also studied the various approaches that are implemented by the researchers to evaluate the website quality. Finally, a comparative analysis was made and determined the outcomes as results and made a few discussions to identify some other technical and non-technical barriers if any

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“…Besides previously mentioned research on educational websites, several studies have addressed accessibility on education. Freire, de Mattos, Barroso and Santos [32] and Lewthwaite & Sloan [33] introduced accessibility in engineering studies; Seale, Georgeso, Mamas and Swain [34] and Dowrick, Anderson, Heyer and Acosta [35] demonstrated that in UK and USA respectively, students with different capacities have difficulties with technical environments in higher education; the accessibility of different LPs was analyzed including Blackboard [36] or Moodle [37], or compared like in the study of the accessibility between open source (Moodle) and proprietary (Sakai) LPs [38]; a study of 399 universities analyzed the relationship between web content quality and web accessibility in 16 countries [39]. The study concluded that Anglo-Saxon countries pay more attention to web accessibility, while Germanic countries pay more attention to web content.…”

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Improving Accessibility in Online Education: Comparative Analysis of Attitudes of Blind and Deaf Students Toward an Adapted Learning Platform

Batanero-Ochaita¹,

de‐Marcos²,

Rivera³

et al. 2021

IEEE Access

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People with different capacities, such as the deaf and blind, have problems accessing educational content due to lack of accessible technology. Accessibility and usability are closely related concepts that share the goals for a satisfactory user experience. Existing literature establishes a direct relation between accessibility and usability, and reports that there are problems with both in learning platforms, and more generally with most websites. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the accessibility and usability of a learning platform by interrogating its participants. Three groups of students with different capacities (blind, deaf and deaf-blind) used an accessible learning platform prototype to assess the accessibility and usability of the platform and its contents. This article presents a comparative study of the perception and attitude of blind and deaf students towards the use of a learning platform adapted to their personal needs. Results showed that their attitude to the adaptation was very positive but there were differences in the perception of the ease of use of the application and with the level of difficulty to access the learning content. This work contributes to knowledge by showing the effects that adaptations have on learning contents for blind and deaf students in terms of accessibility and ease of use through the analysis of the perceptions of participants. Future work may consider increasing the sample of students, as well as developing and testing new technologies and approaches that address other forms of functional diversity.

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The Relationship Between Web Content and Web Accessibility at Universities

Cited by 12 publications

References 54 publications

Experiencing information, acquiring knowledge, and making decisions regarding web accessibility

Experiencing information, acquiring knowledge, and making decisions regarding web accessibility

A Methodical Search of Web Content Accessibility for Visual Disabled People

Improving Accessibility in Online Education: Comparative Analysis of Attitudes of Blind and Deaf Students Toward an Adapted Learning Platform

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