Universities’ Homepages for Accessibility Benchmarks of Thailand and Australian Websites, Policies and Procedures

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The study presents Thailand and Australian universities' available web accessibility policies on a conceptual foundation, stretching from an overview of web accessibility statements to related legal and regulatory mandates. Data collection consisted of 195 universities: 153 from Thailand and 42 from Australia. A content analysis method was used to extract the most associated context. To that end, the researchers assessed the universities concerning their claims of web accessibility compliance. R statistical programming was used to import the data collected and compute the statistical data analyses. The results showed that while all Thai universities did not have a web accessibility policy on the homepage, most Australian universities have a web accessibility policy at a minimum status. Furthermore, there were associations between the accessibility link on the homepage and the commitment status, conformance status, and feedback on the accessibility of the website. That means the accessibility policy link should be visible clearly on the homepage for easy access instead of internal searching. The Thai government needs to implement a multiphase approach to enforce policy usage on the university website's accessibility for any violation. web accessibility accessibility compliance people with disabilities accessibility policy statement Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. Cite Share Download PDF Status: Under Revision Version 1 posted Editorial decision: Revision requested 26 Feb, 2026 Reviews received at journal 30 Jan, 2026 Reviewers agreed at journal 21 Jan, 2026 Reviewers invited by journal 20 Jan, 2026 Editor assigned by journal 14 Mar, 2025 Submission checks completed at journal 14 Mar, 2025 First submitted to journal 12 Mar, 2025 You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. Our growing team is made up of researchers and industry professionals working together to solve the most critical problems facing scientific publishing. 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