• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.449-453
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• 2008

정보와 환경의 급속한 발전에도 불구하고 고령자, 장애인 등은 웹 서비스를 포함한 보편적 서비스를 받지 못하고 소외되고 있다. 본 연구는 최근 활발하게 이루어지고 있는 공공 및 사설 교육 사이트의 E-Learning이 웹 접근성 표준 평가 항목인 '한국형 웹 콘텐츠 접근성 지침'(Korea Web Contents Accessibility Guide 1.0)을 준수 여부를 웹 접근성 평가도구를 사용하여 측정 및 분석하고, 정보격차의 해소를 위한 방향을 제시하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.91-100
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• 2007

Understanding the importance of web accessibility as the solution for digital divide, this study recognizes the problem that existing web accessibility researches have been conducted only by governmental administrative organizations and the accessibility researches of web service that is frequently used in every day life are rare. For the research on the actual condition of web-accessability, this study selected the e-mail service of the representative web-service providers - Daum, Naver, and Empas. Through this evaluation research, this study is intended to present a way to provide convenient and efficient service for those who have been alienated from information. For the accessibility evaluation, the automation evaluation tool "KADO-WAH 2.0" was used. And then, source analysis and manual evaluation using Firefox were conducted to see if 'web contents accessibility guideline 1.0' had been kept.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.87-103
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• 2010

In the study, we introduce the trend in domestic and foreign web accessibility, as well as the legal system that ensures web accessibility. Based on Korean Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (KWCAG)1.0, we investigated the web content accessibility of 80 tertiary health-care hospitals and general hospitals in Korea. We evaluated accessibility by combining accessibility-based criteria (ABC) with usability-based criteria (UBC). ABC was limited to an alternative text for Guideline 1, using a small number of frames and keyboard accessibility for Guideline 2. UBC checked the voice service (TTS), resizing text, providing multi-lingual websites, and disclosing web accessibility policy. KADO-WAH2.0 was used for representing the compliance rate. The evaluation result was a considerable improvement from previous results, even though the rate of compliance with web accessibility was generally insufficient. There was a significant difference between those medical centers which did and did not comply with web accessibility. Incidentally, many hospitals were found to have attempted to confront and come to terms with web accessibility. In future, the following factors are advisable for medical centers with publicity or public interest: they must employ active and aggressive promotion of establishment of independent accessibility guidelines to secure web accessibility, they should effect an improvement of the realization of web accessibility, there can be constant education and promotion, and there can be an institutional supplementation, as well as others.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.481-488
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• 2009

The SNS(Social Network Service or Social Network Sites), the concept which came along with the Web2.0 is on-line service which focuses on building social network communities of people which used to be established off-line. Foreign SNS sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter and domestic SNS sites such as Cyworld, Me2Day are getting popularity continuously and became one of the most important application in internet environments. Since these SNS sites have the purpose of providing infrastructure which enable all the people to share his/her interests with all the other people, it is necessary to appraise whether these sites provide convenient interfaces with proper accessibility to handicapped people and old people who are considered having difficulties in using internet. Web accessibility refers to the practice of providing equal access to people of all abilities and disabilities. If the web accessibility of a SNS site is so low that handicapped people and old people cannot use it properly, those gaps between user groups may become social problems. Therefore, the paper appraised web accessibility of Facebook and Cyworld using automatic tool, KADO-WAH 2.0 and Standard guideline, WCAG 2.0 and suggested the improvement opportunities based on the results of the appraisal.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.53-62
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• 2006

인터넷 및 IT 기술의 획기적인 발전으로 인해 우리가 접하는 정보는 그 양적 측면 뿐만 아니라 질적 측면에서도 비약적인 발전을 가지고 왔다. 또한 인터넷 보급의 활성화로 대부분의 사람들은 많은 종류의 정보 속에서 그리고 다양한 형식으로 구성된 정보 속에서 지내고 있다. 특히 웹의 사용이 일상화 되어감에 따라 컴퓨터를 다루기 힘든 정보소외계층의 웹사이트 정보 접근성에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있으며 그와 관련한 다각적인 연구도 활발히 진행 중이다. 본 연구에서는 선행된 웹 사이트 접근성에 관한 연구와 한국형 자동화 접근성 평가도구의 분석을 통하여 기존의 웹 접근성 평가의 한계를 파악하고 이를 통해 새로운 유형의 웹사이트 접근성 평가모형을 제안하고자 한다. 이를 위한 접근성 평가의 효율성 및 타당성 확보를 위해 먼저 자동화 평가도구인 Kado-Wah 를 이용하여 기본 평가를 진행하였고, 그 결과를 바탕으로 웹 페이지 소스분석 및 음성합성 S/W 를 통한 메뉴얼 평가를 실시하였다. 평가결과를 바탕으로 접근성 오류정도를 산출하여 한국과 미국의 교육기관 웹사이트의 접근성을 비교 분석하고 그 결과를 통해 향후 웹 기반 정보접근에 대한 효율성을 최대화 할 수 있도록 웹 구현에 대한 지침을 제안하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.125-140
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• 2007

Cultural contents should provide all the people web services to ensure accessibility without any obstacles as a core resource of nation including a code linking people and people beyond time and space. This study achieved that automated measure including 11 checkpoints and manual analysis including 11 criteria and 26 checkpoints of three areas in selected five web sites such as Culture Portal. Art Road, Korean Patterns, MFM, and e-Museum supported by Ministry of Culture & Tourism. As a result, web accessibility level of cultural contents analyzed it staying at the beginning level. This study Provided the directions in order to improve accessibility of cultural contents through showing real cases to practice for improving web accessibility.