An exploratory study of the accessibility of state government Web sites

Authors:
Tanya Goette;Caroline Collier;Jennifer Daniels White
Affiliations:
Information Systems and Marketing Department, Georgia College and State University, CBX 12, Milledgeville, GA, USA;Information Systems and Marketing Department, Georgia College and State University, CBX 12, Milledgeville, GA, USA;Information Systems and Marketing Department, Georgia College and State University, CBX 12, Milledgeville, GA, USA
Venue:
Universal Access in the Information Society
Year:
2006

Citing 0
Cited 7

A survey on the accessibility awareness of people involved in web development projects in Brazil

W4A '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international cross-disciplinary conference on Web accessibility (W4A)
The perception of accessibility in Web development by academy, industry and government: a survey of the Brazilian scenario

The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia - Web Accessibility
End-User Development for E-Government Website Content Creation

IS-EUD '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on End-User Development
A survey of technology accessibility problems faced by older users in China

Proceedings of the 2009 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibililty (W4A)
A design pattern language for accessible web sites

Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
Website design and usability assessment implications from a usability study with visually impaired users

UAHCI'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Universal access in human-computer interaction: users diversity - Volume Part II
Guidelines are only half of the story: accessibility problems encountered by blind users on the web

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This paper focuses on Web accessibility. Relevant legislation and judicial decisions are reviewed, and prior empirical research is presented. This study presents the results from the Web accessibility analysis of the home pages of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. It found that twenty-nine percent of the home pages do not meet the requirements for Conformance Level A Web accessibility. Only one state meets Conformance Level AA standards, which are the minimum standards recommended for Web accessibility, and no state meets Conformance Level AAA standards. This paper also discusses how to address common accessibility problems.