Evaluating the web accessibility of websites of the central government of Nepal

  • Authors:

  • Bimal Pratap Shah;Subarna Shakya

  • Affiliations:

  • National IT Center, Kathmandu, Nepal;National IT Center, Kathmandu, Nepal

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Theory and practice of electronic governance
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to evaluate 27 central government websites of the government of Nepal using web-based analysis tool called "Bobby". The evaluation is based on the Web Content Accessibility guidelines (WCAG) provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The results of the evaluation, the importance of Web accessibility and recommendations for improvement are highlighted in the paper.