The objectives of the study are to construct a comprehensive framework for web accessibility evaluation, to evaluate the current status of web accessibility of consumer health information websites and to investigate the relationship between web accessibility and property of the websites. We selected 108 consumer health information websites from the directory service of a Web search engine. We u...

Cultural narratives such as those mentioned in religious texts and folk stories are instrumental in teaching core cultural moral values. In this paper, we investigate the role of cultural narratives in understanding novel moral situations. We examine whether the processes by which core cultural narratives are applied in people‘s lives follow the principles of analogical retrieval and mapping. I...

Search engines are the most common gateway to search information in the WWW. Since Information Retrieval (IR) systems do not take Web accessibility issues into account, displayed results might not tailor to certain users’ needs such as people with disabilities or mobile devices’ users. In order to overcome this situation, we present a model aiming at considering Web accessibility as well as con...

In spite of the importance of visual content in academic publishing, biomedical articles do not offer accessible images, mainly because of the lack of text alternatives. According to a process-oriented accessibility philosophy, this article proposes the use of image-related texts, such as captions or mentions, as text alternatives of images, since they are solutions based on the current practic...

The hiring process is challenging as the lack of quality information limits the discovery of the true nature of candidates, potentially leading to adverse impacts. Social networking sites (SNSs) have emerged as a potential source for candidate information with more than one billion profiles online. While abundant, the quality of this information for hiring is questionable. Utilizing qualitative...

This paper offers one possible means of addressing the issue of poor web accessibility affecting elderly people. The approach presented is to adapt the order in which web pages are presented to the user according to specific web page elements that affect accessibility and the user’s experience. This technique could reduce the time taken to filter out inaccessible pages and would be particularly...

This paper employs data from 260 public managers to assess two broad images of the potential of information technology and computer-based information (CBI) to serve public managers: the "knowledge executive" and the "CBI consumer." The data were collected as part of a longitudinal study of computer use in over 40 U.S. cities in 1976, and again in 1988. We find that computer-based information is...

This paper discusses the employment of self-adaptation techniques in WWW-based interactive systems, as a tool for ensuring their universal accessibility. The paper first elaborates on the underpinnings of universal accessibility and their relevance to Web applications and services. Then it provides a contextual definition of self-adapting systems and an account of how self-adaptation relates to...

Introduction: We examine how residents/citizens of The Netherlands perceive Open Access to acquire preliminary insight into the role it might play in cultivating civic scientific literacy. Open Access refers to scientific/scholarly research literature available on the Web to scholars and the general public in free online journals and institutional repositories. Method: Four focus group sessions...