The ability to live the life one wants with public transport is of key factors sustainable and inclusive societies. Given current trend in domain, providing accessible necessary order allow people participate their day-to-day activities without using a car. Using survey data obtained from Sweden, this study investigates that may have negative effect on perceived accessibility transportation maj...

A novel metric for quantitatively measuring the severity of websites barriers that limit the accessibility for disabled people is proposed. The metric is based on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0), which is the most adopted voluntary web accessibility standard internationally that can be tested automatically. The proposed metric is intended to rank the accessibility barriers b...

Although federal U.S. regulations require schools to provide equal access to educational opportunities for all students, many technologies used in K-12 schools present accessibility barriers for students with disabilities. Interviews assessed knowledge of educational department staff, teachers, and parents of children in K-12 schools in the Pacific Northwest U.S. regarding accessible electronic...

An universal accessibility evaluation of the Moodle Mobile app from a study with 21 participants without disabilities is presented by assessing the emotional response to seven interaction design patterns and video analysis. Results show accessibility barriers identified during the execution of activities and implications of these barriers in the learning process.

OBJECTIVE To analyse the accessibility of primary health care for black families from a poor neighbourhood. METHODS Ethnographic study with an interpretative anthropological approach, carried out with 18 families selected from a poor neighbourhood of Salvador, Northeastern Brazil, over a period of two years. Criteria for inclusion included being resident in the neighbourhood and classifying t...

The enforcement of accessibility today has faced several difficulties, such as intervention in historic buildings that now house public services and cultural activities, such as town halls, museums and theaters and should allow access, on equal terms to all people. The paper presents the application of a method for evaluating the spatial accessibility conditions and their results. For this, we ...

Nowadays, accessibility is a crucial factor for Web site development and use, and yet, people with visual disabilities face many accessibility barriers that hinder the adequate understanding of Web contents. In Brazil, the Federal Government published a law that formalizes the mandatory accessibility to Governmental Web sites’ content. In this context, it is necessary to define ways to evaluate...

While accessibility can be tested with respect to guidelines (like WCAG 1.0, or Section 508) through a standards review method, other methods can be employed, like user testing (DRC, 2004) or usability inspection methods (Preece et al., 2002; Gray and Salzman, 1998; Nielsen, 1993) or those suggested by Henry and Grossnickle (2004). To be really useful, evaluation methods should constrain the wa...

CONTEXT Successful implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) within athletic training is contingent upon understanding the attitudes and beliefs and perceived barriers toward EBP as well as the accessibility to EBP resources of athletic training educators, clinicians, and students. OBJECTIVE To assess the attitudes, beliefs, and perceived barriers toward EBP and accessibility to EBP res...