Definition of standard requirements for medical institution webpage that guarantees web accessibility of visually impaired person

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K00438
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Web informatics, Service informatics
• Research Institution: Hiroshima University
• Principal Investigator: TANAKA Takeshi 広島大学, 病院(歯), 助教 (40325197)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 木内 良明 広島大学, 医歯薬保健学研究科(医), 教授 (40214738) ; 氏間 和仁 広島大学, 教育学研究科, 准教授 (80432821)
• Research Collaborator: 白根 雅子 広島県眼科医会, 会長 ; NARAI Akito 広島県眼科医会, 障害者支援特任理事
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: Webアクセシビリティ / 医療・福祉サービス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To improve our society such that many medical institutions can create their webpages easily with low-cost and little man-power, which support visually impaired persons in obtaining medical information they need and in their self-supports, the authors studied on the present problems in web accessibility of medical institution websites in Japan and on the minimum requirements for a medical institution webpage that satisfies the web content accessibility guideline.
The authors showed that even many university hospitals and public medical hospitals in Japan have an insufficient recognition and knowledge on web accessibility. To improve this situation, the authors propose the minimum requirements as a standard specification which requires that much-need information and features for patients should be placed at the first part of webpage with satisfying the web content accessibility guideline.

Free Research Field

医療情報学