Purpose Last spring, EBSCO Information Services conducted a usability study with several
students with visual impairments. The goal was to understand how these students conduct …

Research was conducted to evaluate the accessibility at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill by having users with visual impairments answer questions about the use of the …

The standard display of web pages is inadequate for users who are visually impaired. Most
visually impaired people obtain information from a web page in a linear fashion via a screen …

The ADA mandates that library programs and services be accessible to people with
disabilities. With the advent of the WWW, the popularity of commercial Web‐based …

The need for social inclusion, informed choice and the facilitation of independent living for
people with learning disabilities (LD) is being emphasised ever more by government …

Being able to use websites is an important aspect of every-day life to most people, including
disabled people. However, despite the existence of technical guidelines for accessibility for …

Purpose–The paper addresses the importance of clarifying terminology such as visually
impaired and related terms before embarking on accessibility studies of electronic …

In this paper, we reviewed a usability evaluation of a leading graduate school homepage in
order to adapt the design and format for users with disabilities. Teachers College, Columbia …

Despite the existing regulations and standards at national and international level, web
content is still difficult to use, if not completely unusable, for visually impaired people. This …

Purpose–Ergonomic concerns dictate the need to be attentive to web accessibility for the
visually impaired. The purpose is to update readers about how the ADA is influencing new …