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Are urban public libraries websites accessible to Americans with Disabilities?

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Title
Are urban public libraries websites accessible to Americans with Disabilities?
Abstract
This paper examines to what extent the 129 members of the Urban Public Libraries Council meet the Section 508 standards for accessibility under the Rehabilitation Act, the minimum acceptable standard for accessibility under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Using an HTML evaluation tool, WAVE, the HTML coding of the libraries’ homepages was evaluated according to the Section 508 criteria for accessibility. After one-to-one deep examination to determine the accessibility of the library websites, the results tended to mirror other studies showing that most library websites have some coding deficiencies that limit the accessibility of the websites. Notably, only 7 of the 122 libraries that were surveyed had no Section 508 errors present with their homepages.
Publication
Universal Access in the Information Society
Date
3/2019
Volume
18
Issue
1
Pages
191-206
Journal Abbr
Univ Access Inf Soc
Citation Key
liuAreUrbanPublic2019
Accessed
8/26/20, 3:44 PM
ISSN
1615-5289, 1615-5297
Language
English
Library Catalog
DOI.org (Crossref)
Extra
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Citation
Liu, Y. Q., Bielefield, A., & McKay, P. (2019). Are urban public libraries websites accessible to Americans with Disabilities? Universal Access in the Information Society, 18(1), 191–206. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-017-0571-7