Sources of Information: Accessibility and Effectiveness

Documents written by experts or scholars discussing results of scholarly works like research.

• books

• reference materials

• scholarly araticles

• news/magazines

• government document

reports, censuses, policies, data and statistics issued and published by the government and its attached agencies.

• books

• reference materials

• scholarly articles

• news/magazines

• government documents

sources providing answers to questions such as statistics, maps, background information (re)directing to additional resources.

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source containing timely, brief and non-technical explanations of events or commentaries for the general public.

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source providing information in details segregated into chapters or parts.

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This characteristic of written communication enables one to understand, evaluate, use and engage with written texts to participate in society, achieve goals and realize potentials.

• effectiveness

• accessibility

• realibility

• credibility

It is described as the degree to which something is successful in producing a desired result.

• effectiveness

• accessibility

• reliability

• credibility

This information accessibility focuses on the visual input presented using an additional description of the information in order for images to be useful for all.

• video accessibility

• audio accessibility

• text accessibility

• image accessibility

This information accessibility deals with scripts about the video which are required for users who cannot access visual or audio media channels.

• text accessibility

• video accessibility

• audio accessibility

• image accessibility

This kind of information source contains the most recent information or opinions.

• reference materials

• books

• government documents

• news / magazine articles