United by Hope, Divided by Access: Country Mapping of COVID-19 Information Accessibility and Its Consequences on Pandemic Eradication.
United by Hope, Divided by Access: Country Mapping of COVID-19 Information Accessibility and Its Consequences on Pandemic Eradication.
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DOI：
10.3389/fmed.2020.618337
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Sela E
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作者：
Dror AA;Morozov NG;Layous E;Mizrachi M;Daoud A;Eisenbach N;Rayan D;Kaykov E;Marei H;Barhum M;Srouji S;Avraham KB;Sela E
有视力、听力、认知和运动障碍的人无法访问许多政府网站和移动内容。 COVID-19 大流行凸显了这些差异，因为卫生当局网站信息对于提供遏制病毒传播至关重要的资源，但许多残疾人仍然无法访问。网络内容可访问性指南提供了相对普遍接受的网站可访问性指南。我们利用这些参数来检查有或没有可访问的卫生当局网站的国家数量。由此产生的数据表明，缺乏可供残疾人访问的网站的国家。信息传播方法必须考虑到残疾人，特别是在全球健康危机时期。
Many government websites and mobile content are inaccessible for people with vision, hearing, cognitive, and motor impairments. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted these disparities when health authority website information, critical in providing resources for curbing the spread of the virus, remained inaccessible for numerous disabled populations. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines provide comparatively universally accepted guidelines for website accessibility. We utilized these parameters to examine the number of countries with or without accessible health authority websites. The resulting data indicate a dearth of countries with websites accessible for persons with disabilities. Methods of information dissemination must take into consideration individuals with disabilities, particularly in times of global health crises.