The accessibility of Cyprus Islands' Higher Education Institution Websites


Iseri E. İ., Uyar K., Ilhan U.

9th International Conference on Theory and Application of Soft Computing, Computing with Words and Perception (ICSCCW), Budapest, Macaristan, 22 - 25 Ağustos 2017, cilt.120, ss.967-974, (Tam Metin Bildiri) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Cilt numarası: 120
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.procs.2017.11.333
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Budapest
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Macaristan
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.967-974
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Kuzey Kıbrıs Kampüsü Adresli: Hayır

Özet

The accessibility of a website means that everyone including people with disabilities can perceive, understandand interact with the website. In this study, accessibility of the 38 higher education institution websites of Cyprus Island has been evaluated. The accessibility assessment was carried out to verify compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The main goal of this study is to determine whether people with disabilities can access and use websites of the Cyprus Island higher education institutions and to raise awareness about web accessibility. It can be conclude that none of the evaluated websites are error free and most of them do not achieve an acceptable web accessibility level of compliance. (c) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.