A longitudinal study of state government homepage accessibility in Maryland and the role of web page templates for improving accessibility |
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| Authors: | Jonathan Lazar Brian Wentz Abdulelah Almalhem Alexander Catinella Catalin Antonescu Yeveniy Aynbinder Michael Bands Edward Bastress Brandon Chan Brian Chelden Darin Feustel Nabin Gautam Whitney Gregg Michael Heppding Cory Householder Alex Libby Corey Melton Jack Olgren Loren Palestino Morgan Ricks Scott Rinebold Matthew Seidel |
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| Institution: | 1. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 8000 York Road, Towson, MD 21252, USA;2. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Towson University, 8000 York Road, Towson, MD 21252, USA;3. Department of Management Information Systems, Shippensburg University, 1871 Old Main Drive, Shippensburg, PA 17257, USA;4. Towson University, USA |
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| Abstract: | It is well documented that government agencies, at all levels, continue to have problems ensuring that government web sites follow laws related to web accessibility for people with disabilities. Although there are a number of published studies on government web accessibility that are point-in-time, there are no published studies consisting of a longitudinal analysis of state-level government web site accessibility. This paper contributes to the research literature in three ways: 1) an accessibility inspection of 25 Maryland state government homepages in 2012 which involved 150 human inspections of web pages, 2) a comparison of the results from 2012 to a similar accessibility evaluation in 2009, and 3) a discussion of the role of a web page template, which was introduced in Maryland state government shortly after the 2009 evaluation. The data from this longitudinal evaluation leads to the conclusion that web page templates do tend to result in more accessible sites within state government. |
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| Keywords: | Web accessibility Policy Disability Compliance Section 508 Templates |
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