Accessibility analysis of North Eastern India Region websites for persons with disabilities

摘要

Web accessibility refers to the process of making the web resources accessible to all types of users including persons with disabilities, without any barriers. It also benefit others including elderly persons and people in specific circumstances which leads to situation based disability. Hence the idea of universal design is gaining attention in the digital ecosystem. This paper provides insights into the current state of web accessibility for persons with disabilities (PwD) with respect to websites belonging to North Eastern Region of India. By adapting web accessibility evaluation tools namely EvalAccess and WAVE, we have evaluated 40 websites of North East Region of India and provided the results of the analysis in this paper. The overall results of accessibility analysis of these sites emphasize the need for enhancing the accessibility of these websites further. The study also has observed that some most common checkpoint errors are present which shall be minimized with the inclusion of simple to implement accessibility features. This paper provides a list of these errors, accessibility component metrics and proper suggestions for enhancing the accessibility of these sites belonging to the North Eastern Indian region.