Improvement of Accessibility in Medical and Healthcare Websites

Gloria Acosta-Vargas; Patricia Acosta-Vargas; Janio Jadán-Guerrero; Luis Salvador-Ullauri; Mario Gonzalez

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-79816-1_33

Improvement of Accessibility in Medical and Healthcare Websites

Gloria Acosta-Vargas, Patricia Acosta-Vargas, Janio Jadán-Guerrero, Luis Salvador-Ullauri, Mario Gonzalez

Facultad de Medicina

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Health information on the Web can make patients better informed about a disease, which according to several studies leads to better treatment results. However, the health information found on the Web is not accessible because it presents barriers that prevent people from easily accessing it because it does not comply with the standards of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1. Therefore, in this study, we present an analysis of the accessibility of the seven most visited health websites in the world. To analyze the accessibility of medical websites, we apply an automatic review method. The results show that health websites have frequent problems related to the lack of alternative text, empty links, and contrast errors. This research can contribute to future work related to accessibility in health and medical sites. Finally, we suggest designing a combined method to review each website’s accessibility barriers to complement the automatic review.

Idioma original	Inglés
Título de la publicación alojada	Advances in Human Factors and System Interactions - Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conference on Human Factors and Systems Interaction, 2021
Editores	Isabel L. Nunes
Editorial	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Páginas	266-273
Número de páginas	8
ISBN (versión impresa)	9783030798154
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79816-1_33
Estado	Publicada - 2021
Evento	AHFE Conference on Human Factors and Systems Interaction, 2021 - Virtual, Online Duración: 25 jul. 2021 → 29 jul. 2021

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Nombre	Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volumen	265
ISSN (versión impresa)	2367-3370
ISSN (versión digital)	2367-3389

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Conferencia	AHFE Conference on Human Factors and Systems Interaction, 2021
Ciudad	Virtual, Online
Período	25/07/21 → 29/07/21

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Acosta-Vargas, G., Acosta-Vargas, P., Jadán-Guerrero, J., Salvador-Ullauri, L., & Gonzalez, M. (2021). Improvement of Accessibility in Medical and Healthcare Websites. En I. L. Nunes (Ed.), Advances in Human Factors and System Interactions - Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conference on Human Factors and Systems Interaction, 2021 (pp. 266-273). (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 265). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79816-1_33

Acosta-Vargas, Gloria ; Acosta-Vargas, Patricia ; Jadán-Guerrero, Janio et al. / Improvement of Accessibility in Medical and Healthcare Websites. Advances in Human Factors and System Interactions - Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conference on Human Factors and Systems Interaction, 2021. editor / Isabel L. Nunes. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021. pp. 266-273 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems).

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Acosta-Vargas, G, Acosta-Vargas, P, Jadán-Guerrero, J, Salvador-Ullauri, L & Gonzalez, M 2021, Improvement of Accessibility in Medical and Healthcare Websites. En IL Nunes (ed.), Advances in Human Factors and System Interactions - Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conference on Human Factors and Systems Interaction, 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 265, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 266-273, AHFE Conference on Human Factors and Systems Interaction, 2021, Virtual, Online, 25/07/21. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79816-1_33

Improvement of Accessibility in Medical and Healthcare Websites. / Acosta-Vargas, Gloria; Acosta-Vargas, Patricia; Jadán-Guerrero, Janio et al.
Advances in Human Factors and System Interactions - Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conference on Human Factors and Systems Interaction, 2021. ed. / Isabel L. Nunes. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021. p. 266-273 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 265).

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Acosta-Vargas G, Acosta-Vargas P, Jadán-Guerrero J, Salvador-Ullauri L, Gonzalez M. Improvement of Accessibility in Medical and Healthcare Websites. En Nunes IL, editor, Advances in Human Factors and System Interactions - Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conference on Human Factors and Systems Interaction, 2021. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2021. p. 266-273. (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-79816-1_33

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