International experts recognize that significant inequities exist in the accessibility of life-saving medicines among poor and vulnerable populations, especially in developing countries. This article highlights that drug access even for relatively cheap medicines is out of reach for the vast numbers of global poor. This badly affects people living with HIV/AIDS who face serious obstacles in acc...

Web accessibility and usability problems can make evaluation difficult for non-experts who may be unfamiliar with assistive technology. Developers often (i) lack easy access to the diversity of assistive technology employed by users, and (ii) are unaware of the different access patterns and browsing strategies that people familiar with a specific assistive technology tool might use. One way to ...

Nowadays there is a growing trend towards using web based applications and web browsers in mobile devices such as cellular phones, PDAs, smart phones, and so on. However, interacting with these web interfaces tends to be a frustrating and unsatisfactory experience due to the existing accessibility barriers. Developing accessible web interfaces for mobile devices is a step towards user satisfact...

In this work we present the trustworthiness assessment in mPASS (mobile Pervasive Accessibility Social Sensing), a location and context aware system that collects data from crowdsourcing and sensing in order to map urban and architectural accessibility. The fusion of heterogeneous urban sources allows mPASS to provide users with personalized paths, computed on the basis of their preferences and...

Three experiments investigate the role of expertise as a moderator of the relationship between implicit and explicit measures of attitudes. Prior research seems to suggest that greater expertise with an attitude object should lead to stronger implicit-explicit correlations. However, a cognitive view of expertise can also predict a weaker implicit-explicit relation. We lay out a framework that h...

User acceptance is a high priority for website design and implementation. Two significant, but largely separate, approaches to acceptability are: First, the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has explored the measurement of technical features of a website to gauge its accessibility. Second, human judgments about acceptability are obtained from intended users or experts. The present work explore...

Conventional thought from the Semantic Web community equates the use of ontologies with the representation of the meaning of content. Here, e skew this viewpoint by describing our ontology, Web Authoring for Accessibility (WAfA), which investigates the way ontologies can describe he semantic structure of documents. By understanding the way heterogeneous XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Mark-up Langu...

Judicial sentencing decisions should be guided by facts, not by chance. The present research however demonstrates that the sentencing decisions of experienced legal professionals are influenced by irrelevant sentencing demands even if they are blatantly determined at random. Participating legal experts anchored their sentencing decisions on a given sentencing demand and assimilated toward it ev...

This paper reports the results of two independent studies dealing with saliency effects within the domain of folkbiological knowledge. In Study 1 we present data from a free listing task that explored tree name generation among Tzotzil Maya of Zinacantán (Chiapas). Study 2 compares Menominee Native Americans with Majority Culture (nonprofessional) fish experts in central Wisconsin. Both studies...

Small Urban Green Spaces (SUGS) mushroomed in dense cities as a scaled down version of larger parks. In the past, SUGS are often abandoned, or their quality is overlooked. The purpose this study to explore design and features make good SUGS. Five experts were approached with weightage evaluation rate its based on selected criteria's; Accessibility, Attractiveness, Functionality, Safety. Each cr...