The Role of Benchmarking in Concerted Actions to Increase Accessibility
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چکیده
This paper covers “soft measures” that can be used in a “stick and carrot” strategy to improve accessibility to web sites. Two examples of benchmarking are presented. The first is the benchmarking of 700 Norwegian public web sites that has been carried out three times the last years, giving experiences on how to carry out the analyses and how to use the results for awareness raising and stimulation to improvement. The second is the planned European Internet Accessibility Observatory, EIAO. This will be capable of large-scale web assessment and may speed up the effects of benchmarking as a tool for awareness raising.
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