A Review on the Portuguese Enterprises Web Accessibility Levels – A Website Accessibility High Level Improvement Proposal

The Web accessibility issue has been subject of study for a wide number of organizations all around the World. The current paper describes an accessibility evaluation that aimed to test the Portuguese enterprises websites. Has the presented results state, the evaluated websites accessibility levels...

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Published inProcedia computer science Vol. 27; pp. 176 - 185
Main Authors Gonçalves, Ramiro, Martins, José, Branco, Frederico
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 2014
Subjects
Enterprises
Evaluation
Improvement Proposal
Portugal
Web accessibility
Web accessibility
Evaluation
Enterprises
Portugal
Improvement Proposal
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Summary:The Web accessibility issue has been subject of study for a wide number of organizations all around the World. The current paper describes an accessibility evaluation that aimed to test the Portuguese enterprises websites. Has the presented results state, the evaluated websites accessibility levels are significantly bad, but the majority of the detected errors are not very complex from a technological point-of-view. With this is mind, our research team, in collaboration with a Portuguese enterprise named ANO and the support of its UTAD-ANOgov/PEPPOL research project, elaborated an improvement proposal, directed to the Web content developers, which aimed on helping these specialists to better understand and implement Web accessibility features.
ISSN:1877-0509
1877-0509
DOI:10.1016/j.procs.2014.02.021