Abstract
Our digital and physical worlds are becoming increasingly interconnected. Digital services reduce the need to physically move hence to have to face physical accessibility barriers, but it becomes then more critical to make sure they are not replaced by digital accessibility barriers. In order to assess the interplay of both worlds from the accessibility perspective, we collected available data and used automated tools from three different perspectives: one starting from physically accessible places and looking at the digital accessibility of their online services, the second going the other way and finally a representative sample of services inside a smart city. Globally, we found a good combined level of accessibility in about one third of the places. Mutual strengthening could also be observed, usually greater on the digital accessibility side and revealing that awareness actions in one field also contribute to improve the other.
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This work was partly funded by the Walloon Region and ERDF through the IDEES CO-INNOVATION project (nr. ETR121200001379). Thanks to CAWAB partners and AnySurfer for the data they provided. Special thanks to Lyse Saint Jean for her contribution to our first assessment campaign.
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Ponsard, C., Vanderdonckt, J., Snoeck, V. (2020). Towards Cross Assessment of Physical and Digital Accessibility. In: Miesenberger, K., Manduchi, R., Covarrubias Rodriguez, M., Peňáz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12376. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58796-3_32
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