Lynn, Theo
ORCID: 0000-0001-9284-7580, Kennedy, Jennifer
ORCID: 0000-0003-0301-9076, Rosati, Pierangelo
ORCID: 0000-0002-6070-0426, Fox, Grace
ORCID: 0000-0003-1392-6833, O’Gorman, Colm, Curran, Declan
ORCID: 0000-0003-0788-1210 and Hynes, Kate
(2023)
Web Accessibility of Irish Local Government Websites.
In: The Seventeenth International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS 2023), April 24-28, 2023, Venice, Italy.
Abstract
The European Union Web Accessibility Directive requires public sector bodies in EU Member States to ensure that their websites are accessible to users and, in particular, for people with disabilities, by September 2020. This paper examines the web accessibility of local authority websites in the Republic of Ireland. It provides an evaluation of web and accessibility statement availability, web accessibility, search engine visibility, and social media visibility, using manual and automated methods. Despite the minimum requirements set out in the Web Accessibility Directive, the overwhelming majority of local government websites examined continue to present significant accessibility issues and vary in the form and detail of their accessibility statements.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
|---|---|
| Event Type: | Conference |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Web accessibility; mobile accessibility; accessibility audits; e-government; local government; web accessibility directive; local authorities |
| Subjects: | Business > Electronic commerce Computer Science > Computer engineering Computer Science > World Wide Web |
| DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > DCU Business School |
| Published in: | Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS 2023). . ICDS. |
| Publisher: | ICDS |
| Official URL: | https://www.iaria.org/conferences2023/ICDS23.html |
| ID Code: | 32853 |
| Deposited On: | 02 Jul 2026 10:09 by Tam Nguyen . Last Modified 02 Jul 2026 10:09 |
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