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Development of the AASPIRE Web Accessibility Guidelines for Autistic Web Users.
Dora M Raymaker1,2, Steven K Kapp2,3, Katherine E McDonald2,4
1School of Social Work, Regional Research Institute, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon.
Autism in Adulthood : Challenges and Management
|April 16, 2020
Summary
New web accessibility guidelines were developed with autistic adults to improve website usability. These guidelines focus on physical, intellectual, and social accessibility, making online content more inclusive for autistic users.
Area of Science:
- Web accessibility
- Autism research
- Human-computer interaction
Background:
- Many websites are inaccessible to autistic individuals.
- Existing accessibility efforts lack autistic user involvement and empirical evaluation.
- The Academic Autism Spectrum Partnership in Research and Education (AASPIRE) aimed to improve health care access for autistic adults.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop evidence-based web accessibility guidelines for autistic users.
- To create a website incorporating these guidelines.
- To evaluate the effectiveness of the developed guidelines and website.
Main Methods:
- Community-based participatory research approach.
- Website development as a "living laboratory".
- Empirical evaluation through usability studies and surveys with 170 autistic end-users.
Main Results:
- Developed the AASPIRE Web Accessibility Guidelines for Autistic Web Users.
- Website evaluation showed high usability (97% easy to use, 95% easy to understand).
- Nearly all users found the site important (97%) and useful (96%).
Conclusions:
- The developed guidelines are effective in improving website accessibility for autistic adults.
- The guidelines are practical, requiring basic web programming skills.
- Recommendations include physical, intellectual, and social accessibility features for inclusive web design.
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