The Status of Web Accessibility of Canadian Universities and Colleges
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Nicholas Zaparyniuk, T.C. Montgomerie, University of Alberta, Canada
AACE Award
EdMedia + Innovate Learning, in Denver, Colorado, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-45-7 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC
Abstract
The fundamental ideal that access to education and information as one of our basic human rights must not be neglected in the electronic information age. This ideal however is not being met in the area of postsecondary web accessibility. This study surveyed 350 postsecondary institutions in Canada to see their level of web accessibility using the Center for Applied Special Technologies accessibility tool, Bobby. It was found that 14.9% of postsecondary institutions surveyed met the priority 1 checks as established by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI, 1999), and only 1.7% were free of both priority 1 and priority 2 errors. The specifics of these errors however, reveal that with the recognition of the issues for those with disabilities and the web, they can be easily addressed.
Citation
Zaparyniuk, N. & Montgomerie, T.C. (2002). The Status of Web Accessibility of Canadian Universities and Colleges. In P. Barker & S. Rebelsky (Eds.), Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2002--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (pp. 2139-2143). Denver, Colorado, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved March 19, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/9253/.
© 2002 Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
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