Web Accessibility of e-Government Portals and Ministry Websites of the Cyprus Island

The accessibility of a website means everyone including people with disabilities can perceive, understand and interact with the that website. In this study, accessibility of the e-government portals and ministry websites of the North and South Cyprus has been evaluated. The accessibility assessment was carried out to verify compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) of these websites. The main goal of this study is to determine whether people with disabilities can access and use government websites of the Cyprus Island and to raise awareness about web accessibility. It can be conclude that none of the evaluated websites are error free and only 15.71% overall pages tested achieve an acceptable web accessibility level of compliance.