상업계 고등학교의 웹 접근성 평가

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the web accessibility of 21 commercial high schools in Korea by using KADO-WAH with indicating the errors and warnings and suggesting the future directions based on the empirical analysis for KWCAG, WCAG1, WCAG2, WCAG3, and Section 508 of Rehabilitation Act of America. Especially, this paper has focused on the automatic evaluation method for WCAG(Web Contents Accessibility Guidelines) which is newly developed by WAI(Web Accessibility Initiative). Nobody dealt with this subject in the previous literature. The development of IT technology and a rapid spread of INTERNET make the knowledge & information provision through web sites important in commercial high schools which have difficulty in recruiting the new students, because it is reported that 99.8% of teenager took the information using INTERNET. The empirical main results are as follows. First, Commercial high schools(Gumi information, Munsung information) has shown the most errors in web accessibility evaluation. Gusan Girl's Commercial High School shows no error. The most kind of errors and numbers are shown by schools(Gumi information, Munsung information, and Songwon Girl's Commercial). Second, the ranking order for the numbers of warning are Gumi, Munsung, Songwon Commercial High Schools. Gunggi Commercial Hihg School shows the least warning kinds and numbers. Third, the 9 kinds of error contents are shown, and 11 schools violated the rules of KWCAG, WCAG, and Section 508 of Rehabilitation Act of America. In general, the level of keeping the web accessibility rules by 21 commercial high schools in Korea is relatively row, because only 12 out of 64 rules are observed. The policy implication for this paper is that government authority should introduce the more active law for keeping the web accessibility. The CEOs of commercial high schools should make their home pages by observing the rules of KADO-WAH, WCAG, KWCAG, and Section 508 of Rehabilitation Act of America.