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Website Design for Improving Web Accessibility of Disabled People

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management
  • Abbr : JKOSIM
  • 2013, 30(1), pp.193~219
  • DOI : 10.3743/KOSIM.2013.30.1.193
  • Publisher : 한국정보관리학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : March 1, 2013
  • Accepted : March 10, 2013
  • Published : March 30, 2013

Lee won kyung 1 Seo, Eun-Gyoung 1

1한성대학교

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ABSTRACT

Public institutions or libraries urgently prepare comprehensive measures to improve web accessibility of their websites as booting web dependability and web utilization of disabled people. The purpose of this study is to propose the design guidelines for improving web accessibility of disabled people. The study, first, analyzed various web accessibility requirements based on web standards, web accessibility guidelines, and the related researches and proposed a web accessibility checklist with 42 requirement. Next, the study evaluated 15 websites of public institutions such as government departments, association of disabled people, and public libraries using the checklist. Finally, the study revealed non-adherence requirements and suggested website design guidelines in terms of contents configuration, sound, colour, keyboard handling, mouse handling, access, image processing, text processing, and code processing.

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