Glen you might find Trulock's 2005 survey of the accessibility of websites in Ireland useful. It was a follow on to McMullin's study in 2002. She goes into lots of details about her method for ascertaining the degree of inaccessibility. * Trulock, V. "A Comparative Investigation of Accessibility Levels of Irish Websites", 2005 Short version: http://www.iia.ie/resources/download/32/ Full MSc: http://www.ilikecake.net/accessibility/ accessibilityinvestigation_3.htm * McMullin, B. "WARP: Web Accessibility Reporting Project Ireland 2002 Baseline Study", 2002 Both these studies got, and continue to get, a lot of attention from the Irish web development community. I suspect they helped raise local awareness of designing for accessibility. - Mike On 28 Nov 2007, at 07:16, Glen E. Farrelly wrote:
While I believe the perceived cost and effort to make websites accessible is a significant reason, I was hoping to find research into other factors. If anyone knows of any research in this area - or in ascertaining the degree of inaccessibility - I would greatly appreciate any tips, links or advice.
-- Mike Bennett PhD Candidate Imaging, Visualisation and Graphics Lab Systems Research Group, University College Dublin, Ireland - email: mike.bennett@ucd.ie - blog: http://www.user-designer.com - web: http://www.stressbunny.com/mike