With a voluntary open-access, online poll, there is a potential bias based on accessibility.
It is usually associated with efforts to improve accessibility to online information about government activities, including contracts, tax and budgets, but as Felipe Estefan, lead on engagement in the World Bank Institute's open government practice, pointed out earlier this year, it is estimated that 65% of the world's population do not have access to the internet.
As patients increasingly search the Internet for health information, accessibility of online material is critical.
Due to the high persuasiveness and broad accessibility of online reviews, companies have become interested in proactively managing this form of customer-to-customer communication.
There's no reason to be entirely glum about the Supreme Court's decision to strike down provisions of the Voting Rights Act: the growing accessibility of online voting and registration spells good things for traditionally marginalized groups.
It could be argued that easy accessibility to online educational resources and to scientific publications has facilitated academic plagiarism, which is defined in (Carroll 2007) as "passing off someone else's work, whether intentionally or unintentionally, as your own for your own benefit".
One way to increase the accessibility of online voter registration is to utilize existing technology to capture and accept an electronic version of the registrant's signature.
Moving beyond the accessibility factor, online art galleries offer unparalleled, global scale for artists in a way that traditional galleries can't.
Older students and employers are looking for accessibility to online resources and the ability to customize programs to fit with their jobs and family life.
Unfortunately, the relative accessibility of online mediums has decreased the intellectual caliber of many individuals participating in trolling behavior, leading to a significant amount of cruel and pointless trolling.
