Accessibility of COVID-19 Websites of Asian Countries: An Evaluation Using Automated Tools

Web accessibility helps in making the websites accessible for all. There has been too much research on the accessibility of websites across different domains such as education, health, banking, route services, Government portals, literature, etc. In this research, we have tried to explore the much l...

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Autores principales: Niom, Telcia, Lin, Frank
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Nature Singapore 2022
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9521853/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36196211
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42979-022-01412-6
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description Web accessibility helps in making the websites accessible for all. There has been too much research on the accessibility of websites across different domains such as education, health, banking, route services, Government portals, literature, etc. In this research, we have tried to explore the much less investigated domain of the accessibility analysis of COVID-19 vaccine registration and information websites of Asian Countries. The analysis has been done based on WCAG 2.0 and 2.1 guidelines. The evaluation has been done using automated tools including Access Monitor and AChecker. The results indicate that only 62% of the websites have passed the accessibility score. We have also identified common errors in these websites and have given recommendations for improvement.
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spelling pubmed-95218532022-09-30 Accessibility of COVID-19 Websites of Asian Countries: An Evaluation Using Automated Tools Niom, Telcia Lin, Frank SN Comput Sci Original Research Web accessibility helps in making the websites accessible for all. There has been too much research on the accessibility of websites across different domains such as education, health, banking, route services, Government portals, literature, etc. In this research, we have tried to explore the much less investigated domain of the accessibility analysis of COVID-19 vaccine registration and information websites of Asian Countries. The analysis has been done based on WCAG 2.0 and 2.1 guidelines. The evaluation has been done using automated tools including Access Monitor and AChecker. The results indicate that only 62% of the websites have passed the accessibility score. We have also identified common errors in these websites and have given recommendations for improvement. Springer Nature Singapore 2022-09-29 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9521853/ /pubmed/36196211 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42979-022-01412-6 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. 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.
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