Website Privacy Notification for the Visually Impaired

Abstract

Privacy and data protection rights is a growing human concern. This includes individuals with disabilities. When it comes to privacy policies and notices published by institutions and businesses, there are legal, business, and social implications to making them readable, accessible, understandable, and simply being paid attention to by a potentially impacted user. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WGAC) provide checkpoints and rules for designing which help developers to make web-based content accessible. The focus of this research is on the web design of privacy notices for the visually impaired. Financial and higher education websites were evaluated for adherence to WGAC checkpoints to support a computer screen reader and the ability to locate and read the privacy policy.