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Government Website Accessibility: Comparison between Korea and the United States  

Hong, Soon-Goo (Department of MIS, College of Business Administration, Dong-A University)
Cho, Jae-Hyung (School of International Business and Area Studies, Pusan University of Foreign Studies)
Lee, Dae-Hyung (Department of MIS, Graduate School, Dong-A University)
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Information Systems Review / v.7, no.1, 2005 , pp. 81-96 More about this Journal
Abstract
Because the web sites are in common today, the access to the web for disabled people and old aging people, what we call accessibility, becomes more important. Even though efforts to reduce the informational gap resulted from the lack of the accessibility have been carried out, the studies in this field in Korea are not still in popular. In this study, previous research on the measurements for the accessibility is reviewed and then a new model measuring accessibility is suggested. To increase the validity of the measurement, both an automated tool and a manual test are employed. First we used the 'A-Prompt', one of the popular automated validation tools and analyzed web sources, and applied manual tests by HPR Screen Reader. With the error rates calculated, the accessibility of the government web sites between Korea and the United States was compared and finally the conclusions were drawn.
Keywords
Accessibility; Automated Validation Tool; Manual Evaluation for WCAG 1.0; Accessibility Error-rate; Government Website;
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