TY - JOUR
T1 - The state of web accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities
T2 - a rapid evidence assessment
AU - Gartland, Sara
AU - Flynn, Paul
AU - Carneiro, Maria Ana
AU - Holloway, Greg
AU - Fialho, José de Sousa
AU - Cullen, Joe
AU - Hamilton, Emma
AU - Harris, Amy
AU - Cullen, Clare
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This research was funded by European Commission, grant number 101018048. The APC was funded by European Commission, grant number 101018048.
Funding Information:
This research was funded by European Commission, grant number 101018048. The APC was funded by European Commission, grant number 101018048. Acknowledgments: The authors wish to thank the Lab of Medical Physics and Digital Innovation of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Thessaloniki Active and Healthy Ageing Living Lab (Thess-AHALL), Panagiotis Bamidis, Savvas Anastasiades, Ioannis Poultourtzidis, Aikaterini Marina Katsouli, Stavroula Makroglou, and Efstathios Sidiropoulos.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - Increased digitisation of day-to-day activities was occurring prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic only accelerated the virtual shift, making web accessibility an urgent issue, especially for marginalised populations. Despite decades of work to develop, refine, and implement web accessibility standards, people with cognitive disabilities regularly experience many barriers to web accessibility. To inform ongoing work to improve web accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities, a systematic review was conducted. The main question guiding this review is: what are the state-of-the-art of interventions that support web accessibility for citizens, 9 years of age and up, living with cognitive impairment? A set of 50 search strings were entered into three academic databases: SCOPUS, ProQuest, and Web of Science. Systematic screening procedures narrowed the search returns to a total of 45 included papers. A data analysis revealed themes associated with the lived experiences of people with cognitive disabilities, tools for improving web accessibility, and methodological best practices for involving people with cognitive disabilities in research. These findings have immediate implications for ongoing research and the development of meaningful solutions to the problem of web accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities.
AB - Increased digitisation of day-to-day activities was occurring prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic only accelerated the virtual shift, making web accessibility an urgent issue, especially for marginalised populations. Despite decades of work to develop, refine, and implement web accessibility standards, people with cognitive disabilities regularly experience many barriers to web accessibility. To inform ongoing work to improve web accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities, a systematic review was conducted. The main question guiding this review is: what are the state-of-the-art of interventions that support web accessibility for citizens, 9 years of age and up, living with cognitive impairment? A set of 50 search strings were entered into three academic databases: SCOPUS, ProQuest, and Web of Science. Systematic screening procedures narrowed the search returns to a total of 45 included papers. A data analysis revealed themes associated with the lived experiences of people with cognitive disabilities, tools for improving web accessibility, and methodological best practices for involving people with cognitive disabilities in research. These findings have immediate implications for ongoing research and the development of meaningful solutions to the problem of web accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities.
KW - Cognitive disability
KW - Cognitive impairment
KW - Web accessibility
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85123960151&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/bs12020026
DO - 10.3390/bs12020026
M3 - Review article
C2 - 35200278
AN - SCOPUS:85123960151
SN - 2076-328X
VL - 12
JO - Behavioral Sciences
JF - Behavioral Sciences
IS - 2
M1 - 26
ER -
