E-Business and Web Accessibility

2010 ◽  
pp. 570-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panayiotis Koutsabasis
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Web Accessibility ◽  
Technical Development ◽  
Internet Applications ◽  
Information Products ◽  
Available Information ◽  
The Web

E-business has developed due to the fast penetration of the Web to human activities ranging from work and education to news and entertainment. The power of the Web is in its universality, and, in principle, everyone can access e-business websites and benefit from available information, products and services. However, in practice, universal access to the Web - and subsequently e-business websites - is not merely an issue of availability or technical development. Web accessibility emphasizes the incorporation of requirements of people with special needs to the design of Internet applications. Notwithstanding these requirements, the spectrum of accessibility concerns is even larger, for example if we think about the changing form of the computer and how people work and communicate: access is not required only from a PC, but also users are on the move and use other access devices (in terms of both hardware and software).

Web Accessibility

2008 ◽  
pp. 678-683
Author(s):  
Gregory R. Gay ◽  
Paola Salomoni ◽  
Silvia Mirri
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Web Accessibility ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Personal Computers ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Internet Applications ◽  
Life Education ◽  
The Web

Technologies have been developed to make personal computers accessible to people with disabilities, important for promoting inclusion in everyday life, education, and work. In the 90s, the spread of Internet applications, and specifically of the Web, created a new issue: Would the Web be accessible to people with disabilities? Web accessibility is partially dependent on assistive technologies used by people with disabilities to access their PCs. But, it also depends on whether people with various disabilities can perform specific tasks on their PCs with the help of their assistive technologies. Another dimension of Web accessibility is the responsibility of Web authors, developers, designers, and technologies they use to develop Web content.

How diverse is hotel website accessibility? A study in the central region of Portugal using web diagnostic tools

2021 ◽  
pp. 146735842110227
Author(s):  
Pedro Teixeira ◽  
Celeste Eusébio ◽  
Leonor Teixeira
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Central Region ◽  
Web Accessibility ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Wcag 2.0 ◽  
Accessible Information ◽  
Hotel Managers ◽  
The Web

Accessible tourism is a very important growth market that should not be ignored by the tourism industry, not only due to legal obligations and social responsibility but also because of business opportunities. However, people with special needs face various constraints in accessing tourism products. The absence of accessible information is one of the main barriers that people with special needs face when they intend to travel. The Internet represents one of the most important information sources in tourism. However, a limited number of studies examine the use of the Internet in the accessible tourism market, specifically website accessibility. To extend knowledge in this field, this study aims to analyse the website accessibility of hotels and Pousadas de Portugal located in the Central Region of Portugal. A sample of 306 websites was analysed based on Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, using automatic web diagnostic tools (AccessMonitor and TAW). This analysis was performed considering the A, AA and AAA conformance levels of WCAG. Findings reveal that the web accessibility level of the hotels analysed is low, with the ‘Perceivable’ and ‘Robust’ guidelines being the most critical. Moreover, there are differences in the web accessibility levels in terms of hotel category. Contrary to what was expected, the higher category hotels present the lowest level of web accessibility. These results can help hotel managers and web designers to improve communication with an important growth market – accessible tourism.

scholarly journals An open-source based toolchain for the georeferencing of old cadastral maps

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Michel Follin ◽  
Maïté Fahrasmane ◽  
Élisabeth Simonetto
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Cadastral Maps ◽  
First Results ◽  
The Web

More and more historical data are available on the web. In France, old cadastral maps are regularly published by the “départements”. Such material is relevant to various applications (on-the-field search of specific objects such as old boundary stakes, historical studies of demography, human activities, land cover…). The GeF laboratory is working on the development of a complete methodological toolchain to vectorise, correct and analyse cadastral parcels and their evolution, using open source software and programming language only (QGIS, GDAL, Python). This article details the use of a part of this toolchain - georeferencing old cadastral data - on parcels located near the Loir river, in two villages of southern Sarthe: Vaas and Aubigné-Racan. After a presentation of our methodological toolchain, we will discuss our first results.

scholarly journals An open-source based toolchain for the georeferencing of old cadastral maps

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Michel Follin ◽  
Maïté Fahrasmane ◽  
Élisabeth Simonetto
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Cadastral Maps ◽  
First Results ◽  
The Web

More and more historical data are available on the web. In France, old cadastral maps are regularly published by the “départements”. Such material is relevant to various applications (on-the-field search of specific objects such as old boundary stakes, historical studies of demography, human activities, land cover…). The GeF laboratory is working on the development of a complete methodological toolchain to vectorise, correct and analyse cadastral parcels and their evolution, using open source software and programming language only (QGIS, GDAL, Python). This article details the use of a part of this toolchain - georeferencing old cadastral data - on parcels located near the Loir river, in two villages of southern Sarthe: Vaas and Aubigné-Racan. After a presentation of our methodological toolchain, we will discuss our first results.

scholarly journals An open-source based toolchain for the georeferencing of old cadastral maps

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Michel Follin ◽  
Maïté Fahrasmane ◽  
Élisabeth Simonetto
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Cadastral Maps ◽  
First Results ◽  
The Web

More and more historical data are available on the web. In France, old cadastral maps are regularly published by the “départements”. Such material is relevant to various applications (on-the-field search of specific objects such as old boundary stakes, historical studies of demography, human activities, land cover…). The GeF laboratory is working on the development of a complete methodological toolchain to vectorise, correct and analyse cadastral parcels and their evolution, using open source software and programming language only (QGIS, GDAL, Python). This article details the use of a part of this toolchain - georeferencing old cadastral data - on parcels located near the Loir river, in two villages of southern Sarthe: Vaas and Aubigné-Racan. After a presentation of our methodological toolchain, we will discuss our first results.

Examination of the electronic educational resources accessibility on the university Moodle platform

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-22
Author(s):  
Ye. A. Kosova ◽  
A. S. Gapon ◽  
K. I. Redkokosh
Keyword(s):  
Web Accessibility ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Evaluation Tool ◽  
Screen Readers ◽  
Video Lectures ◽  
Expert Analysis ◽  
Accessibility Guidelines ◽  
The University ◽  
The Web

The purpose of the article is to assess the accessibility of electronic educational resources (EER) published in the university Moodle Learning Management System (LMS). The analysis involved 22 EERs in mathematical and information technology disciplines, located in the Moodle LMS of the V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University. The examination algorithm included analysis using the Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool (WAVE) and expert analysis of web accessibility using visual, auditory and manual methods based on 89 checklist attributes. In the result of the analysis, multiple accessibility errors of the Moodle platform and the EERs hosted on it were found. The most serious platform problems include: lack of compatibility with text browsers; errors of reproduction by screen readers; errors of content reproduction on mobile devices. The list of accessibility errors made by the authors of EERs includes: incorrect design of hyperlinks (22.7 % of the EERs); lack of subtitles (13.6 %), transcripts (22.7 %), synopses of video lectures (27.3 %); lack of alternative descriptions for figures (68.2 %); time limit for tests (9.1 %); lack of special markup for mathematical notation (36.4 %) and program code (13.6 %), etc. Results of the survey show need in training of EERs’ authors in technologies for developing accessible educational web content. It is advisable to familiarize web developers deploying an LMS at universities with the basics of web accessibility, LMS accessibility functions and modules in order to select the most suitable platform, determine and install the required set of accessibility tools. Before launching all EERs should be subject to mandatory examination for compliance with the web accessibility guidelines.

New Trends on RIAs Development

2014 ◽  
pp. 323-336
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Web Technology ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Internet Applications ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web 3.0 ◽  
Rich Internet Applications ◽  
The Web

Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) are considered one kind of Web 2.0 application; however, they have demonstrated to have the potential to transcend throughout the steps in the Web evolution, from Web 2.0 to Web 4.0. In some cases, RIAs can be leveraged to overcome the challenges in developing other kinds of Web-based applications. In other cases, the challenges in the development of RIAs can be overcome by using additional technologies from the Web technology stack. From this perspective, the new trends in the development of RIAs can be identified by analyzing the steps in the Web evolution. This chapter presents these trends, including cloud-based RIAs development and mashups-rich User Interfaces (UIs) development as two easily visible trends related to Web 2.0. Similarly, semantic RIAs, RMAs (Rich Mobile Applications), and context-aware RIAs are some of the academic proposals related to Web 3.0 and Web 4.0 that are discussed in this chapter.

Internet in Marketing Strategy in Greek Tourism Industry

2011 ◽  
pp. 90-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Samanta
Keyword(s):  
Marketing Strategy ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
The World ◽  
Inexperienced User ◽  
Available Information ◽  
The Web

The web tourists have the chance to do comparative e – travel shopping from suppliers from all over the world fast and easily. Based on this assumption, the purpose of this study is to examine whether internet is a powerful communicational tool for people over the other forms of gathering information for a destination. Furthermore a main objective is to identify whether the available information in the web can promote adequately Greece. Results of the study confirmed that internet is a powerful communicational tool in tourism industry, as per young people’s perspectives. However, booking a holiday through the web might be tricky for an inexperienced user. The negative aspects of e –bookings are the factors that reinforce the validity of the other sources of information.

Querying Web Accessibility Knowledge from Web Graphs

2011 ◽  
pp. 1437-1461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Lopes ◽  
Luís Carriço
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Web Accessibility ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Framework ◽  
Web Graphs ◽  
The Web

Web Accessibility is a hot topic today. Striving for social inclusion has resulted in the requirement of providing accessible content to all users. However, since each user is unique, and the Web evolves in a decentralized way, little or none is known about the shape of the Web’s accessibility on its own at a large scale, as well as from the point-of-view of each user. In this chapter the authors present the Web Accessibility Knowledge Framework as the foundation for specifying the relevant information about the accessibility of a Web page. This framework leverages Semantic Web technologies, side by side with audience modeling and accessibility metrics, as a way to study the Web as an entity with unique accessibility properties dependent from each user’s point of view. Through this framework, the authors envision a set of queries that can help harnessing and inferring this kind of knowledge from Web graphs.

Maximizing Web Accessibility Through User-Centered Interface Design

2009 ◽  
pp. 2542-2555
Author(s):  
Soonhwa Seok
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Web Design ◽  
Web Accessibility ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Standards And Guidelines ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Users With Special Needs

Digital inclusion and Web accessibility are integral parts of modern culture and, as such, have implications for social accountability. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has suggested standards and guidelines regarding the inclusion of people with special needs, with an emphasis on higher accessibility and adaptability as the main goal of Web design. The user interface is the place where users can interact with the information by using their minds. Users with special needs can acquire information by using a human centered user interface. This article highlights the need to investigate the relationship between cognition and user interface.

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