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Recommended Citation: DiLallo, J J and R M Siegfried. The Accessibility of College and University Home Pages in the State of New York. In The Proceedings of the Conference on Information Systems Applied Research 2008, v 1 (Phoenix): §3132. ISSN: 0000-0000. (A later version appears in Journal of Information Systems Applied Research 2(4). ISSN: 1946-1836.)

The Accessibility of College and University Home Pages in the State of New York

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10 pages

Joseph J. DiLallo    [a1] [a2]
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adelphi University    [u1] [u2]
Garden City, New York, USA    [c1] [c2]

Robert M. Siegfried    [a1] [a2]
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adelphi University    [u1] [u2]
Garden City, New York, USA    [c1] [c2]

Website accessibility has become more important in recent years as several companies have been sued over the inaccessibility of their websites. This study involves the development of a software tool that evaluates the compliance of websites with the “10 quick tips” that provide guidance to web designers who seek to address the highest level concerns of the guidelines of the Web Accessibility Initiative. This tool was then used to evaluate the accessibility of the home pages of the degree-granting institutions of higher education in the State of New York. These results are discussed, including which concerns of the disabled need to be addressed.

Keywords: accessibility, World Wide Web, disabled

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