Disability digital divide: an analysis on Sri Lanka

Disability digital divide is a pertinent topic discuss in Sri Lanka. Three decades of civil war effected to become many civilians into disabled. This study analyses the findings on disability and technology adoption among the disabled community in Sri Lanka. This study conducted in two stages and results analyses and proposed a framework to benchmark the web accessibility consideration factors that need to be consider into account for web based mobile application development. Sample cover with the 494 participants. Questionnaire distributed among the sample selected from the different disabled people and it cover from different communities, different disabled categories and different geographical locations. This study indicated that computer and internet usage among the community is low comparatively used of mobile phone. Reason for this is cost of the computer, mobility difficulties, cost of high speed bandwidth, difficulties of sitting in front of a computer, lack of understanding on modern assistive tools and technologies. Therefore mobile phones are popular among the community. As a solution a Framework proposed to overcome the issues. It included the essential consideration factors need be consider by the web developers in the mobile related web application development.