This study investigated the accessibility of web information resources for students with disabilities of 120 academic sites from the U.K., U.S., Australia and Canada using Bobby automatic accessibility tool. The analysis revealed that web sites in this study have higher percentage of accessible sites than most findings from other studies, but 48% of the sites were still inaccessible. The U.K. and U.S. web sites were more superior to the Canadian and Australian sites for major accessibility issues. The difference was less clear in minor issues. There was no significant difference in browser compatibility across originating countries.
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