TY - GEN
T1 - Improvement of Accessibility in Medical and Healthcare Websites
AU - Acosta-Vargas, Gloria
AU - Acosta-Vargas, Patricia
AU - Jadán-Guerrero, Janio
AU - Salvador-Ullauri, Luis
AU - Gonzalez, Mario
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Accessibility
KW - Assessment
KW - Improvement
KW - Medicine websites
KW - WCAG 2.1
KW - Web content accessibility guidelines
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85112183658&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-79816-1_33
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-79816-1_33
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85112183658
SN - 9783030798154
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 266
EP - 273
BT - Advances in Human Factors and System Interactions - Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conference on Human Factors and Systems Interaction, 2021
A2 - Nunes, Isabel L.
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - AHFE Conference on Human Factors and Systems Interaction, 2021
Y2 - 25 July 2021 through 29 July 2021
ER -