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Bulletin of Special Education 2004, 26, 4560 National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

RESEARCH ON INFORMATION ACCESSIBILITY EVALUATION OF WEB-BASED LEARNING RESOURCE PAGES

Ming-Chung Chen Yi-Jun Guan Yu-Fang Lin

National Chiayi University

ABSTRACT

Internet has been an essential learning environment; meanwhile the students with disabilities face some difficulties when they connect to the Internet because of the web accessibility errors. The purposes of this study were to evaluate the information accessibility of the websites of National Digital Archives Program and Learning Resource Websites supported by Ministry of Education. 22 websites with 245 web pages were evaluated by Bobby. This study found that all the 22 websites did not pass the accessibility evaluation; meanwhile only about 30% of the 245 pages passed the Priority one check. These accessibility errors were easy to correct but ignored by the web pages developers. There were some suggestions for the application and research in the future.

Key words: web-based learning, accessible website, information accessibility, individuals with disabilities