NDLI: Disability users’ evaluation of the web accessibility of SNS

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Lee, Sang M. Hong, Soon Goo An, Dong Han Lee, Hyun Mi
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	Social network service (SNS) is an effective communication tool for the community of disabled people. However, there is a general paucity of research on web accessibility of SNSs. This study investigates web accessibility of four SNSs that are most popular among disabled people: Facebook, Twitter, Me2day, and Yozm. Eight disabled individuals were selected according to the type of disability: two with total blindness, two with low vision, two with brain lesions, and two with an upper extremity disability. The subjects were asked to perform four navigation-related tasks and ten general tasks for each SNS. The success rate of their performances and user satisfaction levels were then measured. The four SNSs, on average, attained a task success rate of 73 % and a user satisfaction score of 3.1 points (max. = 5), indicating that the disabled participants found the websites generally inconvenient. As a pioneering evaluative study of the web accessibility of major SNS sites for the disabled, this research contributes to both theory and practice.
Starting Page	517
Ending Page	540
Page Count	24
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18628516
Journal	Service Business
Volume Number	8
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	18628508
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher Date	2013-09-04
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	SNS Web accessibility User evaluation Disabled people Business/Management Science Human Resource Management Management/Business for Professionals
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Business and International Management Strategy and Management

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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