Singh Rana S Shamtej, Ghahremani Jacob Sina, Navarro Ronald Arnold
Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA.
J Patient Exp. 2024 Dec 18;11:23743735241305533. doi: 10.1177/23743735241305533. eCollection 2024.
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAGs) provide website development requirements with users' cognitive/sensory limitations in mind. The purpose of this study was to assess the accessibility and usability of shoulder instability surgery and open Latarjet surgery online patient education materials (OPEMs) for persons with disabilities based on WCAG compliance. OPEMs were evaluated for search engine optimization, content, design, performance, accessibility, overall scores, body text contrast ratios, and compliance error count at increasing WCAG standard levels. Analysis suggested that OPEMs across both search terms scored poorly in WCAG compliance scores and had significant increases in the number of compliance errors as standards became more stringent. These results suggest that orthopedic OPEMs place unnecessary cognitive and physical loads on users with disabilities, warranting greater scrutiny of the availability and accessibility of orthopedic OPEMs.
《网络内容无障碍指南》（WCAG）在制定网站开发要求时考虑到了用户的认知/感官限制。本研究的目的是基于WCAG合规性，评估针对残疾人士的肩部不稳定手术和开放式Latarjet手术在线患者教育材料（OPEM）的可访问性和可用性。针对搜索引擎优化、内容、设计、性能、可访问性、总体得分、正文对比度以及在不断提高的WCAG标准水平下的合规错误计数，对OPEM进行了评估。分析表明，两个搜索词的OPEM在WCAG合规分数方面得分较低，并且随着标准变得更加严格，合规错误数量显著增加。这些结果表明，骨科OPEM给残疾用户带来了不必要的认知和身体负担，因此有必要对骨科OPEM的可用性和可访问性进行更严格的审查。
