• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.33-44
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• 2005

Universal accessibility of web sites Is critical in a highly interconnected world. The web site should be usable by anyone, regardless of Individual capabilities and disabilities. But in reality, the users with disabilities are discriminated by inaccessible wed sites. This research analyze the accessibility of major web sites of Korea based on World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guideline 1.0. The result shows that the average number of accessibility errors per web site is 2.77 much higher than that of Unites States. Automated testing and manual testing of web accessibility provides complementary results.

• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.33-46
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• 2010

In this study, we investigated web contents accessibility of 60 hospital web sites in Korea. The eight evaluation criteria were used for estimating the web contents accessibility of the web sites. These criteria were as follows: providing an alternative text, providing caption for moving picture, providing a skip navigation, usage of pop-up windows, usage of a summary or a caption tag for data table, providing a page title, providing a label for online form, and usage of java scripts. K-WAH 3.0 was used for estimating five evaluation criteria. According to Internet web contents accessibility guideline 1.0, we estimated the rest three evaluation criteria manually and described good or bad examples for the evaluation results technically. The results show that the web accessibility of hospital web sites is generally insufficient and the constant interests in improvement for accessibility are urgently needed.

• 한국경영정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국경영정보학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.786-793
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• 2008

This research is carried out being divided into a first evaluation and second evaluation. A Study is carried out on first, the accessibility compliance level of Korea government department websites and second, whether the site which complies well with web accessibility increases web usability for users through a web usability evaluation. The evaluation result, web sites which comply well with the web accessibility guidelines were observed to increase web usability for both normal and disabled people but web sites which do not comply well were observed to lower the web usability making the web sites unavailable or inconvenient to use. Therefore, it can be concluded that there is a very close interrelationship between web accessibility and usability and thus compliance with web accessibility is not an option but a mandatory requirement.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.113-127
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• 2020

Current web accessibility checks and automatic assessments have been pointed out that the assessment items and scores are evaluated from the developer's point of view rather than from the user's one. In addition, although most of the grades of an automatic assessment on the public web sites are excellent because they are built in accordance with the web accessibility development guidelines, not a few web sites shows relatively low grades in evaluating their usability test made by those users. Taking into account the inadequacy of these web accessibility assessments, this study has identified the differences between the grades of usability evaluations and automatic evaluations for people with low vision and analyzed the major factors affecting web accessibility usability evaluations using Repertory Grid Techniques. Also, the Hard Laddering method of the Means-End Chain theory was adopted to visualize the relationship between Attributes-Conferences-Value and a hierarchical value system analysis based on FGI(Focused Group Interview) to people with the low vision. This study proposed the measures to improve the current web accessibility automatic assessment allocation, expert evaluation criteria, and user task assessment. In particular, it is a web accessibility user evaluation model that can consider the web accessibility quality certification criteria and user review assessment by directly analyzing the user cognitive structure and value system. This study is expected to be useful as a research to enhance the quality of web accessibility assessment.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권10호
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• pp.1816-1828
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• 2016

Museums have recently been expanding their roles as education providers to use websites to provide a variety of information and services including educational programs. In order to better perform their roles as education providers, it is important for museums to commit themselves to making their websites accessible and easy for everyone to use, in compliance with web accessibility. 20 of museum websites were chosen to study the state of web accessibility of domestic museum websites, and were evaluated by using an automated web accessibility evaluation tool called the K-WAH 4.4. And then, we analyze the compliance rates of web accessibility based on 6 Requirements in the KWCAG 2.1. As a Result, only two museums satisfy the compliance rates on 6 Requirements and national & public museums are higher than private museums in compliance rates. So, to improve web accessibility, we comply with accessibility guidelines and design web contents. After witch we should improve web accessibility by modifying insufficient requirements immediately through periodical evaluations.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.1-14
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• 2012

The Web accessibility compliance rate of public organizations and private enterprises is still low due to the lack of awareness of Web accessibility by website developers and managers in spite of the fact that web accessibility compliance became mandatory in 2008. Web developers and managers think the website visual quality might be compromised or the website requires more development time and budget in order to comply with the web accessibility guidelines. Therefore, this paper has analyzed whether developers with various training in web accessibility or experience on website development have different perception on time, cost and design issues for developing accessible websites. For this purpose, 72 Web developers with hand-on experience working for website development companies in Korea were sent to the questionaries. The results have indicated that the group of developers with many hours of training in web accessibility and rich experience on website development perceives that they can develop accessible website without additional cost and time or compromising design quality. The contributions of this paper are following： (1) proving the widely recognized perception on budget, time, and design for developing accessible website is incorrect and (2) motivating further research on this subject in the future.

• 컴퓨터교육학회논문지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.39-49
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• 2010

웹 사이트의 접근성 준수가 법적으로 의무화됨에 따라 웹 접근성의 중요성이 증가하고 있으나 웹 교육을 담당하고 있는 국내 전문계 고등학교에서의 웹 접근성 교육은 전혀 이루어지지 않고 있다. 본 연구에서는 웹 접근성 전문 인력 양성을 위해 국내 전문계 고등학교 웹 교육현황을 살펴보고, 전문계 고등학교에서 재직하고 있는 정보교사들의 웹 접근성에 대한 인식정도를 분석하여 향후 웹 접근성 교육의 가능성을 탐색해보고자 한다. 이를 위해 먼저 국내외 웹 접근성 교육과정을 살펴본 후 국내 97개교의 전문계 고등학교 정보교사들을 대상으로 웹 접근성 교육의향에 대한 설문조사를 실시하였다. 조사결과 정보교사들은 웹 접근성에 대해 단순한 개념적 인식은 어느 정도 하고 있었으나 현재 교육여건과 전문지식의 부재 등으로 웹 접근성 교육의 실시를 꺼려하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 본 논문은 향후 전문계 고등학교의 웹 및 웹 접근성 교육과정 개발의 기초자료로 활용 가능하다.

• 한국디지털정책학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국디지털정책학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.229-244
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• 2004

The purpose of this paper is to find the method to improve the web accessibility of Korean Government's web sites through the investigation on the evaluation result of visually impaired people and the accessibility evaluation tool. Twenty five Korean Governments' web sites are chosen for this experiment. First, all of the sites are evaluated by accessibility evaluation tool (A-Prompt) based on Priority one of the Web Contents Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 of W3C. Second, three visually impaired people tried to find information or resister for the sites to check the accessibility. All of the sites are failed to conform to WCAG 1.0 and most of those are not accessible to information. The last part of this paper presents the method to improve the web accessibility of the Government's web sites.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.87-103
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 국내외의 웹 접근성 동향을 살펴보고 웹 접근성을 보장하기 위한 법제도와 웹 접근성 실태를 소개하였다. 그리고 우리나라의 웹 접근성 지침을 근거로 종합전문요양기관 종합병원 등 80개 의료기관을 대상으로 웹 접근성 실태를 조사하였다. 평가항목은 접근성 베이스 평가기준으로 웹 접근성 지침1의 대체텍스트 제공, 지침2의 프레임사용제한, 키보드로만 운용 등 3개 항목, 사용성 베이스 평가기준으로 음성서비스 제공, 글자크기 조정, 다국어 웹사이트 제공, 웹 접근성 방침 공시 등 4개 항목에 대하여 평가를 실시하였다. 웹 접근성 준수율을 나타내기 위하여 KADO-WAH2.0을 사용하였다. 평가결과 웹 접근성 준수율이 전체적으로 미흡한 수준이었으나, 과거와 비교하여 상당한 수준까지 개선되었다. 그리고 준수하는 의료기관과 그렇지 못한 의료기관의 차이가 매우 크게 나타났다. 한편 많은 병원들이 웹 접근성에 대응하기 위한 노력을 하고 있다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 향후 공공성 공익성이라는 특성을 가진 의료기관에 대해서도 웹 접근성 확보를 위한 독자적인 접근성 지침의 수립, 웹 접근성에 대한 인식의 제고, 지속적인 교육 및 홍보, 법 제도적 보완 등을 적극적으로 추진하는 것이 바람직하다고 본다.

• 한국문헌정보학회지
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.345-364
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• 2008

웹을 중심으로 한 지식정보 서비스의 비중과 중요성은 지속적으로 증가하고 있다. 특히 공공적 성격을 갖는 국립도서관의 경우에는 보편적 서비스를 중심으로 한 평등한 접근성이 기본적으로 보장될 것이 요구된다. 본 연구에서는 웹 접근성 평가도구인 KADO-WAH를 활용하여 16개의 주요 국가의 국립도서관을 선정하여 웹 접근성을 점검하고 비교분석하였다. 이를 통하여 웹 접근성의 국가별 특징과 차이점을 파악하고 향후 방향을 제시하였다.