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Usability of Cloud SaaS based E-Governance for People with Disabilities

Published on December 2012 by N. Rajkumar, B. Gohin, Viji Vinod
EGovernance and Cloud Computing Services - 2012
Foundation of Computer Science USA
EGOV - Number 2
December 2012
Authors: N. Rajkumar, B. Gohin, Viji Vinod
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N. Rajkumar, B. Gohin, Viji Vinod . Usability of Cloud SaaS based E-Governance for People with Disabilities. EGovernance and Cloud Computing Services - 2012. EGOV, 2 (December 2012), 23-28.

@article{
author = { N. Rajkumar, B. Gohin, Viji Vinod },
title = { Usability of Cloud SaaS based E-Governance for People with Disabilities },
journal = { EGovernance and Cloud Computing Services - 2012 },
issue_date = { December 2012 },
volume = { EGOV },
number = { 2 },
month = { December },
year = { 2012 },
issn = 0975-8887,
pages = { 23-28 },
numpages = 6,
url = { /proceedings/egov/number2/9491-1014/ },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%A B. Gohin
%A Viji Vinod
%T Usability of Cloud SaaS based E-Governance for People with Disabilities
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%P 23-28
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%I International Journal of Computer Applications
Abstract

People with disabilities in society has been rapidly increasing due to the demographic trends long documented by many researchers,now-a-days the governmental leaders have paid little attention to their needs when planning and implementing Cloud SaaS projects. If this ignorance continues in society, people with disabilities will be even more disadvantaged . Since the acquiring knowledge is now much easier for those without any disabilities. This research is intended to provide an in-depth evaluation of the E-Governance sites of India's central government based on the Web Content Accessibility (WCA) Guidelines provided by W3C(World Wide Web Consortium). Based on the WCA Guidelines, we have studied and coded each individual E-Governance site of the central government. The results indicate that the governmental Web sites in general have made many mistakes . In light of these research findings, this paper offers a number of levels to improve the Cloud Based SaaS design practices in India that may also apply to public organizations in general and disability community people can also access the services easily.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Cloud Computing E-governance Saas Accessibility Disabilities w3c wca