United by Hope, Divided by Access: Country Mapping of COVID-19 Information Accessibility and Its Consequences on Pandemic Eradication.
COVID-19
accessibility
disabilility
disability accessibility
global health
information accessibility
website accessibility
Journal
Frontiers in medicine
ISSN: 2296-858X
Titre abrégé: Front Med (Lausanne)
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101648047
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
received:
16
10
2020
accepted:
23
12
2020
entrez:
15
2
2021
pubmed:
16
2
2021
medline:
16
2
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Many government websites and mobile content are inaccessible for people with vision, hearing, cognitive, and motor impairments. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted these disparities when health authority website information, critical in providing resources for curbing the spread of the virus, remained inaccessible for numerous disabled populations. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines provide comparatively universally accepted guidelines for website accessibility. We utilized these parameters to examine the number of countries with or without accessible health authority websites. The resulting data indicate a dearth of countries with websites accessible for persons with disabilities. Methods of information dissemination must take into consideration individuals with disabilities, particularly in times of global health crises.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33585515
doi: 10.3389/fmed.2020.618337
pmc: PMC7873525
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
618337Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2021 Dror, Morozov, Layous, Mizrachi, Daoud, Eisenbach, Rayan, Kaykov, Marei, Barhum, Srouji, Avraham and Sela.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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