A study of web accessibility of websites built in HTML5: Focusing on the top 100 most visited websites

Abstract

HTML5 is the next generation of web standards, and needs to be used to improve Web accessibility. To do this, Korea has taken various activities, such as laying down laws and standards related to web accessibility and investigating the realities of web accessibility. Recently, the market for web accessibility has been growing. This study compared the rates of building up HTML5, focusing on the top 100 most visited websites in Korea and abroad. Also, this study assessed the web accessibility of websites built in HTML5, and compared the web accessibility of Korea to those of foreign countries, verifying any efforts made to decrease any information gap. The results of this study show that Korea has built fewer HTML5 web sites than foreign countries. However, the web accessibility in Korea has steadily increased, and there is not much difference in web accessibility between Korea and foreign countries. © 2014 SERSC.