Macakoğlu Şevval Seray, Peker Serhat
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), Ankara, Turkey.
Department of Management Information Systems, Izmir Bakircay University, Izmir, Turkey.
Univers Access Inf Soc. 2022 Jun 6:1-9. doi: 10.1007/s10209-022-00886-8.
Hospital web pages serve as an interactive communication resource to meet the needs of patients, healthcare professionals and other stakeholders. The aim of this study is to present the accessibility analysis of 58 university hospital websites in Turkey. For this purpose, websites of the selected university hospitals were analyzed using two different online automated testing tools. The results showed that university hospital websites in Turkey had low compliance levels according to the WCAG 2.0 guidelines. Most of the websites did not even meet the minimum requirements for compliance level A. In addition, almost all of the websites had broken links and about a third of the websites had problems with accessing from mobile devices. Moreover, some important clues that draw attention to the accessibility problems of websites are also discussed in this study. Hence, the results of this study provide feedback to developers and administrators to improve the accessibility of these websites.
医院网页作为一种交互式交流资源，可满足患者、医疗保健专业人员及其他利益相关者的需求。本研究旨在呈现对土耳其58家大学医院网站的可访问性分析。为此，使用两种不同的在线自动化测试工具对所选大学医院的网站进行了分析。结果显示，根据WCAG 2.0指南，土耳其大学医院网站的合规水平较低。大多数网站甚至未达到A级合规的最低要求。此外，几乎所有网站都存在断链问题，约三分之一的网站在移动设备访问方面存在问题。而且，本研究还讨论了一些引起对网站可访问性问题关注的重要线索。因此，本研究结果为开发者和管理者提供了反馈，以改善这些网站的可访问性。
