Paper Info
Title
The potential of web accessibility in China: a hypothesis on its impact on the global web interface
Abstract
This paper is based on a preliminary research conducted in 2005 into the current level of web accessibility in China. We evaluated a few websites which are meant to be information portals for the visually impaired. Results of the evaluations show none of them is compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1) [1] Level A checkpoints and most of them are inaccessible at all. Causes behind this situation may include lack of legislation from the government and lack of accessibility awareness of web designers. However, we found Chinese Web accessibility also faces more of a challenge as a result of the complications of Chinese language itself. We hope this paper could bring the attention of both Chinese government and Chinese web designers on web accessibility and also help international stakeholders to understand the facts in China.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-3-540-73283-9_10
HCI (7)
Keywords
Field
DocType
web content accessibility guidelines,chinese web designer,accessibility awareness,chinese language,chinese web accessibility,global web interface,web designer,chinese government,level a checkpoint,web accessibility,current level,web interface,universal design,web design
Web design,Web Accessibility Initiative,World Wide Web,Web analytics,Web standards,Web navigation,Web application security,Web Content Accessibility Guidelines,Web accessibility,Business
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eleanor Lisney100.68
Christina Li200.68
Songtao Liu300.34