• Information Systems Review
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.81-96
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• 2005

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.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.63-84
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• 2020

With the recent announcement of the WCAG2.2 Work Draft of the W3C, revision of the WCAG2.2 guidelines will be made soon. Consequently, the revision of KWCAG2.1 in response to changes in the domestic and international environment of web accessibility is urgent. The revision primarily involves development and selection of web accessibility evaluation items. In this study, the efficient procedures and useful methodologies for developing and selecting the evaluation items are to be presented. FGI (Focus Group Interview) has been devised to reflect every stakeholders opinion fairly. GT (Group Technology) has been applied to expedite the revision processes particularly in the FGI. QFD (Quality Function Deployment) method plays an important role in investigating the relationship between evaluation items and its characteristics, and in analyzing the importance and priorities of each item. This study proposes 5 principles, 17 guidelines and 39 evaluation items which can be used for the revision of KWCAG 2.1. This study is expected to be of great help in establishing the KWCAG 2.2 in the near future.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.191-194
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• 2009

Vocational rehabilitation is defined as a process which helps people with disabilities to maintain life of non-disabled people and vocational assessment is a part of it. Traditionally, vocational assessment is performed through using of assessment tools, vocational counseling and so on. It is very efficient to apply vocational assessment to people with disabilities using the internet, but we should provide them with web accessibility. In this paper, we design and implement the aptitude test system for people with visual impairment supporting web accessibility. We develop the aptitude test system using the Holland Test which is the assessment tool of career guidance and counseling. We also show that the aptitude test system for people with visual impairment supports web accessibility more than previous Holland Test which is served in the internet.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.258-268
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• 2021

Online learning systems are becoming an effective educational medium for many universities. The accessibility of online learning system in universities means that every student, including the visually impaired, is able use all the site's services. This research focuses on investigating the accessibility of online learning systems for visually impaired users. The paper purpose is to understand the perception of visually impaired undergraduate students towards Blackboard's accessibility and to make recommendations for a new Blackboard design with accessible features that support their needs. Impact of a new Blackboard design with accessible features on visually impaired students, using Taif University students as a case study is evaluated in this paper, as it is similar to most learning systems used by Saudi universities. A study on Taif University's utilization of Blackboard was conducted using mixed method approaches (an automatic tool and a user study). In the first phase, Taif's use of Blackboard was evaluated by the web accessibility tool called AChecker. In the second phase, we conducted a user study to verify previously discovered accessibility challenges to fully assess them according to the accessibility and usability guidelines. In this study, the accessibility of Taif University's Blackboard was evaluated by thirteen visually impaired undergraduate students. The results of the study show that Blackboard has accessibility issues, which are confusing navigation, incompatibility with assistive technologies, untitled pages or parts, unclear identification for visual elements, and inaccessible PDF files. This paper also introduces a set of recommendations that aim to improve the accessibility of Blackboard and other educational websites developed for this population. It also highlights the serious need for universities to enhance web accessibility for online learning systems for students with disabilities.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.81-87
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• 2013

Due to the development of IT technologies and the Internet penetration, the importance of Web accessibility has greatly increased and accordingly been studied a lot. This study noticed that the current evaluation algorithm for "Table Elements," which are used for data and layout tables, has many problems. Based on the Web Accessibility Guidelines, this study presents an improved evaluation algorithm for "Table Elements" and verifies its validity.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.834-835
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• 2013

This study makes an evaluation whether compliance on the web accessibility of domestic broadcasters site is observed to some degree. The compliance rate is estimated by six guidelines provided in KWA-H 4.0 automatically assessed tool. While the compliance rate of the broadcaster web accessibility is the highest in 'open new window' by 80.2% among six guidelines, the item of 'markup error prevention' demonstrated the lowest level by 36.2%.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.23 no.1 s.59
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• pp.181-200
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to analyze the accessibility of web resources contained in the references section of journal articles.1 was identified a total of 1,377 web citations for a major journal in information science over a ten year period. The results show that the accessible ratio of domestic web resources was at 40% and the ratio of foreign web resources about 50%. The accessible ratio of domain type web resources was shown 58% while the same ratio for file type web resources was 45%. This low accessibility of we resources in references poses threat to the overall value of journal articles.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.45-53
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• 2008

Since people with visual impairments are mostly hard to access the Internet they have been neglected from the information-oriented society. Therefore, the contents which consider the web accessibility to readily access to the web by people with visual impairments are an essential component. In this paper, we developed the contents to improve the web accessibility for people with visual impairments. To provide easy access to the web by people with visual impairments, we analyzed the existing web sites for blind people and considered a concise design, and hierarchical structure. Using the PHP, CSS, and Javascript, the necessary functions for the visually handicapped such as focusing, shortcut key, and text equivalent are implemented. The results which are tested by blind users prove the efficiency of the proposed contents.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.9
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• pp.39-48
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• 2013

This study has been conducted for the purpose to materialize a research task management system supporting smart work in regards to web accessibility. Smart phones have been on the spotlight in managing businesses and government affairs for their economical benefits and time wise efficiency. However, there is a lack of evidence in the actual development and implementation of smart phones in he current reality. Thus, this study has been conducted to build such a system with this current situation in mind. Prior to developing the system, studies have been made regarding HTML5, web accessibility, and Smart work. Through a theoretical study, an HTML5-based web accessibility system has been constructed and its methodology of development presented. As a result, the methodology presented through this study proves to be beneficial in the system development of smart devices-based environment which obey Web Accessibility.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.19-25
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• 2017

In the reality that the use of the web is becoming commonplace, the general people are complaining about the inconvenience because they are not standardized when using the web site. Especially, the disabled people such as the social underprivileged classes people suffer from the inconvenience due to the web site that is not accessible. The purpose of this study is to conduct an authentication audit to obtain web accessibility certification mark on the homepage of a specific public institution. Through these practical cases, it is possible to improve the recognition of web accessibility by practitioners or managers, And suggest ways to improve the Aging existing public institution web sites. Although there are a lot of existing literature and previous researches, it is still not being newly produced because of lack of awareness of web accessibility, As a result, the users who access the web site of the public institution for the first time are much inconvenienced. In order to solve this problem, this paper compares the Korean web content accessibility guideline 2.1, revised in April 2015, and verified the effectiveness of the guidelines through web accessibility evaluation of specific public institution sites.