The Web offers older adult users immediate access to health resources that might not otherwise
be available. Older adult users, however, may encounter Web barriers associated with normal
aging and lower education. The National Institute on Aging Web guidelines were used to assess
the usability of 125 Web sites offering health resources. Performance, translation, and reading
complexity were also assessed. Results showed that many of the sampled sites were not seniorfriendly.
Only 12% of the sites offered a Spanish version, many containing nontranslated text.
Approximately a third of sampled sites required a college education to comprehend extracted health
information.