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ReviewBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2022

The State of Web Accessibility for People with Cognitive Disabilities: A Rapid Evidence Assessment.

Sara Gartland, Paul Flynn, Maria Ana Carneiro, Greg Holloway, Jose de Sousa Fialho, Joe Cullen, Emma Hamilton, Amy Harris, Clare Cullen

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Review in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. The complexity in deaf and hard-of-hearing multilingual learner education.Journal of deaf studies and deaf education · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Sara GartlandSchool of Education, National University of Ireland Galway, H91 TK33 Galway, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-1881-6564
Paul FlynnSchool of Education, National University of Ireland Galway, H91 TK33 Galway, Ireland.
Maria Ana CarneiroCEPCEP, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 1649 023 Lisbon, Portugal.
Greg HollowayARCOLA Research LLP, London E8 2NW, UK.
Jose de Sousa FialhoCEPCEP, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 1649 023 Lisbon, Portugal.
Joe CullenARCOLA Research LLP, London E8 2NW, UK.
Emma HamiltonARCOLA Research LLP, London E8 2NW, UK.
Amy HarrisARCOLA Research LLP, London E8 2NW, UK.
Clare CullenARCOLA Research LLP, London E8 2NW, UK.

Funding

European Commission 101018048
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Increased digitisation of day-to-day activities was occurring prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic only accelerated the virtual shift, making web accessibility an urgent issue, especially for marginalised populations. Despite decades of work to develop, refine, and implement web accessibility standards, people with cognitive disabilities regularly experience many barriers to web accessibility. To inform ongoing work to improve web accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities, a systematic review was conducted. The main question guiding this review is: what are the state-of-the-art of interventions that support web accessibility for citizens, 9 years of age and up, living with cognitive impairment? A set of 50 search strings were entered into three academic databases: SCOPUS, ProQuest, and Web of Science. Systematic screening procedures narrowed the search returns to a total of 45 included papers. A data analysis revealed themes associated with the lived experiences of people with cognitive disabilities, tools for improving web accessibility, and methodological best practices for involving people with cognitive disabilities in research. These findings have immediate implications for ongoing research and the development of meaningful solutions to the problem of web accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities.

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cognitive disabilitycognitive impairmentweb accessibility

Identifiers

PMID35200278
PMCPMC8869505

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