Table 1.
Frequency of detected T3 problems by type (N=31).
| Problem type | Examples | Frequency, n (%) |
| Utility of search criteria | “Okay so if I type in the wrong thing it makes it more difficult. Still looking...self-care management, maybe I’m looking in the wrong place. Care transition, EPIC transition planning tool...uh I’m not finding the self- care. Okay, I’ll probably give up on that.” | 8 (26) |
| Finding the search bar is difficult | “I’m looking for that, scrolling. Hmm, is there a search bar? That would have been easy, oh here we go, I found it.” | 4 (13) |
| Finding disease-specific resources | “So, I still think that it would be better to organize this page by general versus...and then also you could have some general articles and then you could have some disease-specific articles and the disease-specific articles could be in alphabetical order to make it easier to find because I kinda gave up on that one.” | 3 (10) |
| Email of website contact opens email software or application | “Oh okay, so you have to add an account, so you have to actually put your email in? Okay can I close that?” | 3 (10) |
| Cannot locate the email of the website contact person | “Copy any contact email address. Let’s see. Okay so I’m going to the wrong place and I’m going back to look. Okay, so it has a contact person but no email address.” | 3 (10) |
| Need clarity on who to contact for an article behind a firewall | “I can’t really find who to talk to about getting this article.” | 3 (10) |
| Some windows blocked by a firewall or files won’t open | “There were, I’m going to score it a four because there were some windows blocked by a firewall.” | 3 (10) |
| Search bar is missing | “Is there a search bar here? That would be helpful under the tools, search for articles and tools.” | 2 (6) |
| Clicking on aspects of the webpage results in no action | “I should not be doing this because when I click on it, it doesn’t work.” | 1 (3) |
| Difficulty returning to a previous page (going back) | “Do I hit back-arrow or close?” | 1 (3) |