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The Role of Benchmarking in Concerted Actions to Increase Accessibility

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2006)

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This paper covers “soft measures” that can be used in a “stick and carrot” strategy to improve accessibility to web sites. Two examples of benchmarking are presented. The first is the benchmarking of 700 Norwegian public web sites that has been carried out three times the last years, giving experiences on how to carry out the analyses and how to use the results for awareness raising and stimulation to improvement. The second is the planned European Internet Accessibility Observatory, EIAO. This will be capable of large-scale web assessment and may speed up the effects of benchmarking as a tool for awareness raising.

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  1. Vista Utredning AS, C.J. Hambros plass 5, 0164, Oslo, Norway

    Finn Aslaksen

  2. Norge.no, Njøsavegen 2, 6863, Leikanger, Norway

    Frank Fardal

  3. Faculty of Engineering, Agder University College, Grooseveien 36, NO-4876, Norway

    Mikael Snaprud

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, Johannes Kepler Universität, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Studienzentrum fuer Sehgeschaedigte, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

    Joachim Klaus

  3. fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Institute integrated study, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, A 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang L. Zagler

  4. The Universal Math Access Lab, University of San Francisco, 281 Masonic San Francisco, 94117, CA, USA

    Arthur I. Karshmer

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Aslaksen, F., Fardal, F., Snaprud, M. (2006). The Role of Benchmarking in Concerted Actions to Increase Accessibility. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W.L., Karshmer, A.I. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4061. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11788713_39

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