Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

3 results found tagged government websites.

Accessibility of Internet Websites through Time

Stephanie Hackett, Bambang Parmanto, Xiaoming Zeng (2004) — Proceedings of the 6th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets 04)

This paper presents a longitudinal analysis of web accessibility from 1997 to 2002 using archived snapshots from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. The researchers evaluated 240 archived instances of random websites (40 per year from the Alexa t…
Health Problem Solving by Older Persons Using a Complex Government Web Site: Analysis and Implications for Web Design

Sara J. Czaja, Joseph Sharit, Chin Chin Lee, Sankaran N. Nair, Mark S. Hernández, Nelida Arana, Shih-Han Fu (2011) — ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

This study examined how older adults (ages 50-85) navigate Medicare.gov to complete a realistic health-related task: finding quality ratings for home health care agencies. The researchers recruited 112 participants stratified by age decade (50s, 60s,…
An Optimal Sampling Method for Web Accessibility Quantitative Metric

Mengni Zhang, Can Wang, Jiajun Bu, Zhi Yu, Yi Lu, Ruijie Zhang, Chun Chen (2015) — Proceedings of the 12th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2015)

This short paper proposes OPS-WAQM, an optimal page sampling method specifically designed for use with the Web Accessibility Quantitative Metric (WAQM) when evaluating large websites. The core problem is that evaluating every page of a large website …