Accessibility of Australian government online cancer screening information for people with intellectual disability.
Aim: Public health campaigns, including Australian cancer screening programs, are increasingly promoted online through government websites. The accessibility of these initiatives for people with intellectual disability is unknown. However, a lack of accessible information about available services is...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice (2198-1833) Vol. 34; no. 9; pp. 2109 - 2120 |
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Springer Nature
Sep2026
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=196448394&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 196448394 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 21981833 NENI jtl: Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice (2198-1833) issn: 21981833 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2026 vid: 34 iid: 9 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 196448394 10.1007/s10389-025-02426-z ppf: 2109 ppct: 11 formats: tig: atl: Accessibility of Australian government online cancer screening information for people with intellectual disability. aug: au: Barrington, Maryann Fisher, Karen R. Harris-Roxas, Ben Spooner, Catherine Trollor, Julian N. Weise, Janelle affil: https://ror.org/03r8z3t63 National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia https://ror.org/03r8z3t63 Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia https://ror.org/03r8z3t63 School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia https://ror.org/03r8z3t63 Centre for Primary Health Care & Equity, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia su: Australia World Wide Web Documentation Health Readability (Literary style) Information resources Internet Linguistics Government programs Communication Health promotion Access to information Cognition Cultural pluralism Medical protocols Audiovisual materials Research funding Early detection of cancer Color vision Descriptive statistics Data analysis software sug: subj: World Wide Web Documentation Health Readability (Literary style) Information resources Internet Linguistics Government programs Communication Health promotion Access to information Cognition Cultural pluralism Australia Wired Telecommunications Carriers Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals Medical protocols Audiovisual materials Research funding Early detection of cancer Color vision Descriptive statistics Data analysis software keyword: Accessibility Cancer screening Health information Intellectual disability Medical and Health Sciences Public Health and Health Services Accessibility Cancer screening Health information Intellectual disability Medical and Health Sciences Public Health and Health Services ab: Aim: Public health campaigns, including Australian cancer screening programs, are increasingly promoted online through government websites. The accessibility of these initiatives for people with intellectual disability is unknown. However, a lack of accessible information about available services is an important barrier to cancer screening for this group. This study aimed to investigate the accessibility of online information for cancer screening programs. Subject and methods: Australian government health websites promoting the national breast, bowel, and cervical screening programs were identified and web pages were evaluated for their compliance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, cognitive accessibility guidelines, readability recommendations, and where relevant, compliance with Easy Read guidelines. Results: The most common accessibility errors included low-contrast colors, missing alternative text, broken links, and excessive content. Readability was a consistent issue, with most materials written at levels considered too high for both people with intellectual disability and the general population. The limited number of documents that were readily available in Easy Read did not follow guidelines. Conclusion: These findings demonstrate that government public health initiatives currently fail to meet the communication and information needs of people with intellectual disability. This places the population at risk of continued under-screening and fails to uphold their right to information about their healthcare. The creation and dissemination of accessible materials should be a priority for governments and health services. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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