Evaluating the web accessibility of IIT libraries: a study of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate and identify the status of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) conformance levels (A, AA, AAA) and accessibility status in terms of Severity (Error, Warning and Review) and Responsibility (Editor, Webmaster and Developer) of Indian Institu...
| Publicado en: | Performance Measurement & Metrics Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 121 - 146 |
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| Formato: | equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Emerald Publishing Limited
2020
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=146948899&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 146948899 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 14678047 NG6 jtl: Performance Measurement & Metrics issn: 14678047 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2020 vid: 21 iid: 3 pid: 465 pub: Emerald Publishing Limited artinfo: ui: 146948899 146948899 146948899 10.1108/PMM-02-2020-0011 146948899 ppf: 121 ppct: 25 formats: tig: atl: Evaluating the web accessibility of IIT libraries: a study of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. aug: au: Panda, Subhajit Chakravarty, Rupak affil: University Library, Chandigarh University, Punjab, India sug: subj: Colleges and Universities Libraries Access to Information World Wide Web Guideline Adherence Human India Internet Electronic Publications Student Knowledge Information Literacy ab: Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate and identify the status of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) conformance levels (A, AA, AAA) and accessibility status in terms of Severity (Error, Warning and Review) and Responsibility (Editor, Webmaster and Developer) of Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Library websites based on Siteimprove Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform. Design/methodology/approach: The library websites of IITs were tested using Siteimprove web-tool to gather details pertaining to W3C's WCAG 2.1 standards. The data thus obtained were then visualized using spreadsheet software for greater insight. A partial correlation test was also done to assess the relationship between the three conformance levels. Findings: The study could identify significant accessibility-related limitations of the IIT library websites concerning the three WCAG 2.1 conformance levels A (max IIT Bombay), AA (max IIT Dhanbad (ISM)) and AAA (max IIT Gandhinagar and IIT Varanasi (BHU)), Severity and Responsibility. A positive linear relationship exists amongst these conformance levels. The mean value of conformance levels were found to be 18.3 (A), 2.2 (AA) and 3.1 (AAA); Severity scores were found to be 14.4 (Error), 3.9 (Warning) and 5.2 (Review); and Responsibility scores were found to be 6 (Editor), 9.3 (Webmaster) and 8.3 (Developer), respectively. Practical implications: The study highlights the comparative picture of accessibility issues and conformance levels of the IITs' library website homepage with the help of results derived/based on Siteimprove Accessibility Checker. The findings of the study reveal that though the library website of IITs' in India possess a well-designed and easily navigable website homepage as far as their accessibility for VIPs is concerned, there are several issues that are still to be resolved. Social implications: World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Marrakesh VIP Treaty (MVT) and the W3C's WCAG cater to the requirements and rights of the persons with vision-related disability of accessing information and knowledge building a steeper and deeper knowledge divide. Identifying and rectifying the shortcomings in the library websites will bridge the accessibility-divide and make the society more inclusive. Originality/value: No previous study could be identified evaluating the accessibility issues of the library website of Indian IITs focussed on vision-disabled persons using Siteimprove. The methodology and approach of this paper have value in terms of reusability and reproducibility facilitating future studies. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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