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Accessibility evaluation of university hospital websites in Turkey
Hospital web pages serve as an interactive communication resource to meet the needs of patients, healthcare professionals and other stakeholders. The aim of this study is to present the accessibility analysis of 58 university hospital websites in Turkey. For this purpose, websites of the selected un...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9169594/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35693426 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10209-022-00886-8 |
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author | Macakoğlu, Şevval Seray Peker, Serhat |
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description | Hospital web pages serve as an interactive communication resource to meet the needs of patients, healthcare professionals and other stakeholders. The aim of this study is to present the accessibility analysis of 58 university hospital websites in Turkey. For this purpose, websites of the selected university hospitals were analyzed using two different online automated testing tools. The results showed that university hospital websites in Turkey had low compliance levels according to the WCAG 2.0 guidelines. Most of the websites did not even meet the minimum requirements for compliance level A. In addition, almost all of the websites had broken links and about a third of the websites had problems with accessing from mobile devices. Moreover, some important clues that draw attention to the accessibility problems of websites are also discussed in this study. Hence, the results of this study provide feedback to developers and administrators to improve the accessibility of these websites. |
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spelling | pubmed-91695942022-06-07 Accessibility evaluation of university hospital websites in Turkey Macakoğlu, Şevval Seray Peker, Serhat Univers Access Inf Soc Communication Hospital web pages serve as an interactive communication resource to meet the needs of patients, healthcare professionals and other stakeholders. The aim of this study is to present the accessibility analysis of 58 university hospital websites in Turkey. For this purpose, websites of the selected university hospitals were analyzed using two different online automated testing tools. The results showed that university hospital websites in Turkey had low compliance levels according to the WCAG 2.0 guidelines. Most of the websites did not even meet the minimum requirements for compliance level A. In addition, almost all of the websites had broken links and about a third of the websites had problems with accessing from mobile devices. Moreover, some important clues that draw attention to the accessibility problems of websites are also discussed in this study. Hence, the results of this study provide feedback to developers and administrators to improve the accessibility of these websites. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-06-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9169594/ /pubmed/35693426 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10209-022-00886-8 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2022 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Communication Macakoğlu, Şevval Seray Peker, Serhat Accessibility evaluation of university hospital websites in Turkey |
title | Accessibility evaluation of university hospital websites in Turkey |
title_full | Accessibility evaluation of university hospital websites in Turkey |
title_fullStr | Accessibility evaluation of university hospital websites in Turkey |
title_full_unstemmed | Accessibility evaluation of university hospital websites in Turkey |
title_short | Accessibility evaluation of university hospital websites in Turkey |
title_sort | accessibility evaluation of university hospital websites in turkey |
topic | Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9169594/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35693426 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10209-022-00886-8 |
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