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Website Content Accessibility of the Cyprus Domain

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This paper extends previous studies that investigated the accessibility of different web sites of specific content, to an analysis of the whole web of a specific country (Cyprus). To our knowledge no previous study has analyzed such a big number of web sites for accessibility in a single study. More specifically this paper evaluates the compliance of 30,000 Cyprus related websites spidered by Arachne search engine. The 30,000 Cyprus related websites where evaluated for accessibility using the Bobby accessibility tool. Statistical analysis and comparison of the accessibility ratings for the different main domain categories (commercial, academic, governmental, and organizational) of the Cypriot web are also provided.

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  1. The Center for Human Computer Interaction Design, City University, London, UK

    Panayiotis Zaphiris

  2. Artificial Intelligence Lab Center of Biological and Computational Learning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Giorgos Zacharia

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  1. Dept. of Informatics, Aristotle University, 54006, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Yannis Manolopoulos

  2. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box 20537, 1678, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Skevos Evripidou  & Antonis C. Kakas  & 

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Zaphiris, P., Zacharia, G. (2003). Website Content Accessibility of the Cyprus Domain. In: Manolopoulos, Y., Evripidou, S., Kakas, A.C. (eds) Advances in Informatics. PCI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2563. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-38076-0_17

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