TY - GEN
T1 - Challenges and improvements in website accessibility for health services
AU - Acosta-Vargas, Patricia
AU - Hidalgo, Paula
AU - Acosta-Vargas, Gloria
AU - Gonzalez, Mario
AU - Guaña-Moya, Javier
AU - Salvador-Acosta, Belén
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Today, the growing number of applications and web users make software engineering a promising field, especially the development of accessible web applications. According to the World Health Organization, 15% of the world’s population carries some form of disability. There are many websites for patient care, but not all of them are accessible. Therefore, it is necessary to develop accessible websites for health services that comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 that provide guidelines for the development of more accessible and inclusive applications. Testing accessibility in web applications is a major challenge for accessibility experts, so this research proposes an assessment method to measure the accessibility of health-related web applications. The method can serve as a reference to apply to any website.
AB - Today, the growing number of applications and web users make software engineering a promising field, especially the development of accessible web applications. According to the World Health Organization, 15% of the world’s population carries some form of disability. There are many websites for patient care, but not all of them are accessible. Therefore, it is necessary to develop accessible websites for health services that comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 that provide guidelines for the development of more accessible and inclusive applications. Testing accessibility in web applications is a major challenge for accessibility experts, so this research proposes an assessment method to measure the accessibility of health-related web applications. The method can serve as a reference to apply to any website.
KW - Accessibility
KW - Evaluation
KW - Health
KW - Method
KW - Services
KW - WCAG 2.1
KW - Website
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85081909545
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-39512-4_134
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-39512-4_134
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85081909545
SN - 9783030395117
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 875
EP - 881
BT - Intelligent Human Systems Integration - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Human Systems Integration IHSI 2020
A2 - Ahram, Tareq
A2 - Karwowski, Waldemar
A2 - Vergnano, Alberto
A2 - Leali, Francesco
A2 - Taiar, Redha
PB - Springer
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Human Systems Integration, IHSI 2020
Y2 - 19 February 2020 through 21 February 2020
ER -