2003/08/31 by Jonathan P. Bowen
Computer Science · #cs.CY #cs.HC #cs.IR
published as Jonathan P. Bowen. Disabled Access for Museum Websites. WWW2003: The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 20-24 May 2003. Conference poster · 2 pages, see http://www2003.org/cdrom/papers/poster/p335/p335-bowen.html
arxiv created 2004/10/06 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
Physical disabled access is something that most museums consider very seriously. Indeed, there are normally legal requirements to do so. However, online disabled access is still a relatively novel field. Most museums have not yet considered the issues in depth. The Human-Computer Interface for their websites is normally tested with major browsers, but not with specialist browsers or against the relevant accessibility and validation standards. We consider the current state of the art in this area and mention an accessibility survey of some museum websites.