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In this paper, we evaluated 10 Korean web sites whether these sites have enough usability for the disabled people. Theoretically, there must be no difference using web content to an ordinary user and to a user with disabilities. However, under practical manners, the difference cannot be overcome due to lack of sensory issues. We chose 10 most frequently accessing web sites in 5 categories. We also define the Disability Web Usability (DWU) that is the ratio between the web usability of the handicapped and the web usability of the ordinary. The experimental results show that DWUs of the web sites are between 0.49 and 0.76. This implies that the handicapped people are far more difficult to perform tasks navigating the given web sites.
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Choi, S., Kim, S., Kim, S. (2008). Korean Web Site Usability for Disabled People. In: Lee, S., Choo, H., Ha, S., Shin, I.C. (eds) Computer-Human Interaction. APCHI 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5068. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70585-7_46
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