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Homepage not enough when evaluating web site accessibility

Stephanie Hackett (Health Information Management Department, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)
Bambang Parmanto (Health Information Management Department, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)

Internet Research

ISSN: 1066-2243

Article publication date: 30 January 2009

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Abstract

Purpose

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The purpose of this paper is to determine if the homepage of a web site is representative of the whole site with respect to accessibility.

Design/methodology/approach

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The paper presents an intraclass correlation (ICC) between homepage web accessibility barrier (WAB) scores and the WAB scores of web site levels 1 through 3 for 33 popular web sites.

Findings

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The paper finds that the homepage is not sufficient to detect the accessibility of the web site. ICC of the homepage and average of levels 1‐3 is 0.250 (p=0.062) and ICC of levels 1, 2, and 3 is 0.784 (p<0.0001). Evaluating the homepage and first‐level pages gives more accurate results of entire site accessibility.

Originality/value

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This is first study correlating homepage accessibility with web site accessibility.

Keywords

Citation

Hackett, S. and Parmanto, B. (2009), "Homepage not enough when evaluating web site accessibility", Internet Research, Vol. 19 No. 1, pp. 78-87. https://doi.org/10.1108/10662240910927830

Publisher

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2009, Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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