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An accessibility assessment of selected Web‐based health information resources

Sarah K. McCord (Sarah K. McCord is Electronic Resources Librarian, Washington State University Health Sciences Library, Pullman, Washington, USA. E‐mail: mccord@wsu.edu)
Linda Frederiksen (Linda Frederiksen (frederik@vancouver.wsu.edu) is Access Services Librarian at Washington State University Vancouver Library, Vancouver, Washington, USA.)
Nicole Campbell (Nicole Campbell (campbell@vancouver.wsu.edu) is Reference Librarian, at Washington State University Vancouver Library, Vancouver, Washington, USA.)

Library Hi Tech

ISSN: 0737-8831

Article publication date: 1 June 2002

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Abstract

The Internet has created new opportunities to make quality health information more widely available to both researchers and the general public. However, not all that information has been presented in a format accessible to people with disabilities. This accessibility assessment of eight selected Web‐based health information resources (PubMed, OVID MEDLINE, MEDLINEplus, CANCERLIT, the Hazardous Substance Data Bank, TOXLINE, and two databases of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)) evaluates the ease with which these resources can be navigated using adaptive technologies, and provides suggestions for improvement where necessary.

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McCord, S.K., Frederiksen, L. and Campbell, N. (2002), "An accessibility assessment of selected Web‐based health information resources", Library Hi Tech, Vol. 20 No. 2, pp. 188-198. https://doi.org/10.1108/07378830210432552

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