Abstract

The accessibility of a website means that everyone including people with disabilities can perceive, understandand interact with the website.In this study, accessibility of the 38 higher education institution websites of Cyprus Island has been evaluated. The accessibility assessment was carried out to verify compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The main goal of this study is to determine whether people with disabilities can access and use websites of the Cyprus Island higher education institutions and to raise awareness about web accessibility. It can be conclude that none of the evaluated websites are error free and most of them do not achieve an acceptable web accessibility level of compliance.

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