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Web accessibility legislation in Italy: a survey 10 years after the Stanca Act

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Ten years after the enactment of the Stanca Act in Italy, the paper presents a survey regarding the accessibility of municipal Web sites. This study aims at checking the application of WCAG 2.0 guidelines to Italian municipalities Web sites and to understand what are the problems that still need to be solved to obtain a universal access to public local content in Italy.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Comelico 39/41, 20135, Milan, Italy

    Barbara Rita Barricelli, Pierlauro Sciarelli, Stefano Valtolina & Alessandro Rizzi

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Barricelli, B.R., Sciarelli, P., Valtolina, S. et al. Web accessibility legislation in Italy: a survey 10 years after the Stanca Act. Univ Access Inf Soc 17, 211–222 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-017-0526-z

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