Health information in Italian public health websites: moving from inaccessibility to accessibility
Health information in Italian public health websites: moving from inaccessibility to accessibility
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1471-1842.2005.00602.x
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发表时间：
2005-12-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Barbaro, A
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作者：
Mancini, C;Zedda, M;Barbaro, A
目标：2004年1月，意大利政府通过了旨在让残疾人获得在线服务的新立法。从新的立法要求出发，本研究的目的是调查不同能力的用户是否可以访问意大利地方卫生当局的网站。方法：通过结合适当的可访问性测试方法，对170个网站进行分析，评估它们对万维网联盟(W3C)优先I指南的遵从性。这项审查进行了两次：第一次是在2003年底和2004年5月至6月之间。2004年12月，在2004年7月发布《斯坦卡法》实施条例草案之后，再次进行了同样的调查。在第二次调查中，对之前分析的所有网站进行了再次检查，以确定是否采取了一些措施来使这些网站可访问。结果：76%的被分析网站未能满足最基本的W3C要求，但意大利地方卫生当局的网站可能会在一些残疾用户群体的访问方面有显著的改善：在第一次和第二次审查之间，可访问网站的数量持续增加。结论：由于执法，健康信息网站的开发者对网站可访问性问题的意识似乎正在增强。对未来的研究和发展提出了建议。
Aims: In January 2004, the Italian government passed new legislation designed to give people with disabilities access to online services. Starting from the new legislation requirements, the purpose of this study is to investigate whether Italian Local Health Authorities websites are accessible to users with different abilities.Methods: One hundred and seventy websites were analysed evaluating their compliance to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Priority I guidelines via a combination of appropriate accessibility testing methods. This review was carried out twice: the first time it took place between the end of 2003 and May-June 2004. The same survey was repeated again in December 2004, after the issuing of the draft of the Implementation Regulations for The Stanca Law in July 2004. In this second survey, all the websites analysed before were checked again to establish if some measures to make those sites accessible were taken.Results: Seventy-six per cent of the analysed websites fail to satisfy the most basic W3C requirements, but Italian Local Health Authorities websites are likely to present significant improvements to access for some disabled user groups: the number of accessible websites increased consistently between the first and the second review.Conclusions: It seems that awareness of web accessibility issues is increasing among developers of health information websites because of law enforcement. Recommendations for future research and development are offered.