Abstract
AbstractThe World Wide Web has become one of the most important resources for the large part of the population in searching healthcare information. The available COVID-19 information on Websites should be reliable and accurate in order to spread awareness. This has become all the more important in times like COVID-19, pandemic situation when it is necessary to create awareness about the disease to large population in a country like India and also provide updated information and status of the situation. However, readability poses barrier for many people. In this paper, readability of online information related to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is evaluated using online readability tool. It was found that the readability of content addressing COVID-19 is satisfactory. But the absence of multilanguage option in majority of Websites under study forms another barrier in information dissemination.KeywordsCOVID-19ReadabilityWebFX tool
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