Large-scale accessibility evaluation of Romanian municipal websites
Journal Title: Revista Romana de Interactiune Om-Calculator - Year 2019, Vol 12, Issue 2
Abstract
The Digital Agenda for Europe has clear objectives as regards the enhancement of digital literacy, skills, and inclusion. Poor web accessibility has a negative impact on the inclusion of citizens and customers in the provision of online services. In this respect, web accessibility is a critical precondition for a barrier-free Europe. Recently, a new European directive has been issued that requires the web accessibility of public sector bodies by September 2020, the latest. This paper reports on a large-scale evaluation of the accessibility of municipal websites in Romania. The evaluation has been carried on in June-July 2019 and targeted 186 websites. The sample includes all towns having a population of over 10,000 inhabitants. Overall, these towns account for 92% of the total urban population. The results show that web accessibility is low, only one website passing the requirements of WCAG 2.0. The comparison with previous evaluation results shows little progress and could be explained by low accessibility awareness, weak accessibility policy at country and local level, and bad practices in web development.
Authors and Affiliations
Costin Pribeanu
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP672021
- DOI -
- Views 168
- Downloads 0
A Corpus of Multi-participant Conversations and an Editor for its Annotation
The paper presents the details and the history of building a corpus of instant messenger (chat) conversations with multiple participants used for Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. Two XML annotation schemas are...
Remote Visualization of Dynamical 3d Graphical Scenes
This paper presents the development of an application used for remote visualization of 3D graphical scenes. For this purpose, an interactive application is realized. The main goal of the system is to allow users of compu...
Campusul de realitate mixtă 3DUPB - o perspectivă asupra felului în care mediile de realitate mixtă pot modela viitorul
Combinând concepte şi tehnici din jocurile 3D MMO, realitatea virtuală, realitatea mixtă şi ubiquitous computing, proiectul 3DUPB provoacă modurile tradiţionale de realizare a activităţilor şi interacţiunilor interumane...
Modelarea reutilizării resurselor în domeniul medical prin intermediul reţelelor sociale şi a internetului semantic
Dezvoltarea materialelor educaţionale a devenit una dintre principalele preocupări ale specialiştilor din numeroase domenii, inclusiv în medicină. Extinderea aplicaţiilor e-Learning impune crearea unor resurse care să pe...
Using Hand Gestures in Human-Computer Interaction
This article discusses how to use hand gestures in human-computer interaction. People, who are not very accustomed with computers, find this method much more intuitive than using the mouse or keyboard. The evaluation tha...