Evaluating Accessibility of Jordanian E-Government Websites for People with Disabilities

This research evaluates the accessibility of major E-government Websites in Jordan by people with disabilities with conformance to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0. The evaluation is conducted using two methods, namely automatic testing tools and manual checking of target Websites. Twenty five Websites representing ministries and other agencies of Jordanian government, such as Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Ministry of Transport ...etc. are used for evaluation. Results showed that all tested Websites did not address the issue of disability-accessibility and they have many Web accessibility problems. Therefore, they are violating the e-government standard which says that all citizens must have equal accessible opportunities to all e-government recourses. Keywords-component; Web Accessibility; E-goevernment; WCAG.