Zeng Xiaoming, Parmanto Bambang
Department of Health Information Management, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2003;2003:743-7.
The objectives of the study are to construct a comprehensive framework for web accessibility evaluation, to evaluate the current status of web accessibility of consumer health information websites and to investigate the relationship between web accessibility and property of the websites. We selected 108 consumer health information websites from the directory service of a Web search engine. We used Web accessibility specifications to construct a framework for the measurement of Web Accessibility Barriers (WAB) of website. We found that none of the websites is completely accessible to people with disabilities, but governmental and educational health information websites exhibit better performance on web accessibility than other categories of websites. We also found that the correlation between the WAB score and the popularity of a website is statistically significant.
该研究的目的是构建一个用于网络可访问性评估的综合框架，评估消费者健康信息网站的网络可访问性现状，并调查网络可访问性与网站属性之间的关系。我们从一个网络搜索引擎的目录服务中选取了108个消费者健康信息网站。我们使用网络可访问性规范构建了一个用于衡量网站网络可访问性障碍（WAB）的框架。我们发现没有一个网站对残疾人是完全可访问的，但政府和教育类健康信息网站在网络可访问性方面比其他类别的网站表现更好。我们还发现WAB分数与网站受欢迎程度之间的相关性具有统计学意义。
