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Barriers to use: usability and content accessibility on the Web's most popular sites

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Terry Sullivan,

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CUU '00: Proceedings on the 2000 conference on Universal Usability

Pages 139 - 144

https://doi.org/10.1145/355460.355549

Published: 01 November 2000 Publication History

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Content accessibility is a key feature in highly usable Web sites, but reports in the popular press typically report that 95% or more of all Web sites are inaccessible to users with disabilities. The present study is a content accessibility compliance audit of 50 of the Web's most popular sites, undertaken to determine if content accessibility can be conceived and reported in continuous, rather than dichotomous, terms. Preliminary results suggest that a meaningful ordinal ranking of content accessibility is not only possible, but also correlates significantly with the results of independent automated usability assessment procedures.

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