Accessibility of Internet websites through time

  • Authors:
  • Stephanie Hackett;Bambang Parmanto;Xiaoming Zeng

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA;University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA;University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • Assets '04 Proceedings of the 6th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Using Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, a random sample of websites from 1997-2002 were retrospectively analyzed for effects that technology has on accessibility for persons with disabilities and compared to government websites. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Tukey's HSD were used to determine differences among years. Random websites become progressively inaccessible through the years (p