PURPOSE This article asserts that current approaches to enhance the accessibility of Web resources fail to provide a solid foundation for the development of a robust and future-proofed framework. In particular, they fail to take advantage of new technologies and technological practices. The article introduces a framework for Web adaptability, which encourages the development of Web-based servic...

BACKGROUND The two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method, which is one of the most widely used methods for measuring healthcare spatial accessibility, defines the catchment area of each facility as the area within a certain distance from the facility. However, in some cases, the service utilization behavior is constrained by administrative boundaries, therefore the definition of catchment...

Our study details the creation of a series of national open source low-level geographical measures of accessibility to health-related features of the environment. There are three main domains across our indicators: retail services, health services and the physical environment. Using the network analysis process of Routino, this study analyzed postcode accessibility to retail and health services...

There are significant barriers preventing many users, often disadvantaged citizens such as people with disabilities and elderly people, from accessing many services and information provided by e-solutions, especially governmental and commercial web sites and public access systems. Tenuta is a project funded by the European Union (EU) that is helping improve the usability and accessibility of es...

This paper presents a framework for evaluating house-level accessibility to urban services based on detailed geo-referenced socio-demographic census data. The framework is applied to assess spatial equity regarding the accessibility of individuals and social groups to urban parks in the city of Tel Aviv. Availability of house-level data was found to be essential for identifying differential acc...

Given the current trend of public procurement of accessible products and services, including software, there is a need for the suppliers to demonstrate that a software product conforms to accessibility requirements. This is called software accessibility conformity assessment. Today, the evaluation process, and the techniques and tools required to do this, is not as well defined as it is in othe...

By having implemented digital terrestrial television (DTT) in Latin American countries and taking into account their ability to develop interactive services, new possibilities have been opened for improved connectivity in rural areas and those with difficult access by using applications that enable ubiquitous communication. In order to transfer the existing knowledge from Spain and Europe, the ...