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      Invited to dinner, but not to the table: web content accessibility evaluation for persons with disabilities

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          Disability is very common and yet not well understood within sub-Saharan African countries. There has been growing attention to the use of research evidence to improve social inclusion of persons living with disabilities. This article reports on a process that can be used to monitor and evaluate evidence databases to encourage improvements in website and content accessibility for people with disabilities. We examined five evidence communities’ online databases by: (1) assessing the accessibility of these website databases; and (2) assessing the resources within these websites. Finally, we aimed to provide feedback from the evaluation to these evidence databases. We carried out a cross-sectional study of the online evidence databases using the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines – a universal standard for web content accessibility assessment. We assessed access to the databases using a purposive sample of 25 resources within them. Resources are meant to improve practice, policy and decision making for all, including people with disabilities. They include systematic reviews, reports and articles. Accessibility is being able to obtain, understand and use resources; addressing barriers that could hinder this is important. Even though these evidence databases are considered as enabling inclusion and diversity within the evidence ecosystem, their contents are not fully accessible to people with disabilities, and they only partially met the recommendations of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

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                Journal
                rfa
                Research for All
                UCL Press (UK )
                2399-8121
                14 December 2023
                : 7
                : 1
                : 19
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Effective Basic Services (eBASE) Africa, Bamenda, Cameroon
                [2 ]The Partnerships for Inclusive Research and Learning (PIRL) Project, Toronto, Canada
                [3 ]Africa Evidence Network (AEN), Johannesburg, South Africa
                [4 ]Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
                [5 ]Centre for Knowledge Management and Research, PACKS Africa, Accra, Ghana
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                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7383-3914
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9271-788X
                https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-518X
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3050-3891
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9891-9028
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9017-7496
                Article
                10.14324/RFA.07.1.19
                0d7b25ee-b365-4b3a-b562-74059d0ad40c
                Copyright 2023, Mirabel Nain Yuh, Gloria Ndum Okwen-Akah, Melaine Nyuyfoni Nsaikila, Lynn Cockburn, Kirchuffs Atengble, Ruth Stewart and Patrick Mbah Okwen

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 08 September 2021
                : 10 July 2023
                Page count
                Figures: 4, Tables: 1, References: 31, Pages: 12
                Funding
                This article is an output of the disability project funded by the Stichting Support Batibo (SSBK) and Stichting Wakka Foundation Holland ( http://www.stichting-wakka-foundation.nl/). We express our sincere gratitude to these funding bodies.
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                Assessment, Evaluation & Research methods,Education & Public policy,Educational research & Statistics
                persons with disabilities,inclusion,evidence ecosystem,evidence synthesis,web accessibility,diversity

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