The purpose of the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template, or VPAT, is to assist Federal contracting officials and other buyers in making preliminary assessments regarding the availability of commercial "Electronic and Information Technology" products and services with features that support accessibility. It is assumed and recommended that offerers will provide additional contact information ...

One of the typical design objectives of municipal Wi-Fi systems is the free or low-cost provision of connectivity for citizens, including people with disabilities and others impacted by the digital divide. This paper examines a range of municipal Wi-Fi implementation models for potential impact on e-accessibility. A comparative analysis was undertaken of sample U.S. and European municipal Wi-Fi...

In this paper a method to create GIS-based accessibility indicators is presented. The method allows to create person-by-person and store-by-store (disaggregate) accessibility indicators but also to derive zonal summary (aggregate) indicators that can be used in more traditional transportation planning applications. These indicators have also been used as explanatory variables in person-based tr...

Web Content Management Systems (CMS) are traditionally used in institutions to allow web content management by people without technical skills. This study intends to check the influence of the CMS in the accessibility of the contents they handle. First, an accessibility analysis of six widely used CMS is performed base don the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG). Second, an accessibi...

In this paper we describe the prototype of a location-based M-tourism application called My Italy, developed by the Usability and Accessibility Laboratory (LUA) University of Rome Sapienza. My Italy is a mobile multimedia tourist guide capable of supplying the mobile user with context-aware information during travel in a fast and easy way. My Italy was designed to optimize the user’s experience...

This paper presents the main results of a research on the risks incurred by the Metropolitan District of Quito considering the people’s mobility and areas accessibility issues. This analysis relies on a methodology implemented within the framework of a programme called “Information System and risks within the Metropolitan District of Quito” carried out by the French Development Research Institu...

A fundamental tension between accessibility and governance exists in the design of healthcare information systems. In order to be useful in practice health information must be distributed, but as the information moves between systems — and different information governance policies — the risk of privacy and security violations increases. The lack of a persistent policy enforcement mechanism thus...

The proliferation of online social networking (OSN) in recent years has caused organizations information security threats due to disclosure of information by their employees on their sites. The accessibility of OSN to anyone, at any time, using any devices, causes confidential and sensitive organizational information to be disclosed to unauthorised individuals, whether accidentally or intention...

Geographic information systems (GIS) can be effectively utilized to carry out spatio-temporal analysis of spatial accessibility to primary healthcare services. Spatial accessibility to primary healthcare services is commonly measured using floating catchment area models which are generally defined with three variables; namely, an attractiveness component of the service centre, travel time or di...