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How the accessibility in e-commerce affects the inclusion of the visually impaired? Visually impaired internet users in developing countries

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  • HEC Paris
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Article
Peer-review

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FWCI
1.58
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Author count
2
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Paper percentile
83
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Citations
5
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Citations

Abstract

This study reviews the public policy effectiveness of website accessibility in Mexico and explains how these regulations may affect the visually impaired. The authors did n=6 semi-structured interviews with key players of the visually disabled community and then evaluated n=366 websites with a web scraping tool, using principal components analysis and non-parametric statistics to compare their accessibility by type of website. The authors found that even if there is a regulation for providing equal access to websites, the state of the law is insufficient and non enforced for private and public institutions, affecting the basic human right for visually impaired internet users.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output:
Contribution to journal
Article
Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 49-65 (17 pages)

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

VISUAL Review. International Visual Culture Review / Revista Internacional de Cultura (Volume 10, Issue 1)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 2021

Publication status

Published - 2021

Publication IDs

  • Scopus: 85111584942