Evaluation of Accessibility of University Websites: A Case from Turkey

Yerlikaya, Zehra; Durdu, Pınar Onay

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-58753-0_94

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“…The results of this study generally show that many of the websites had accessibility errors, violating the WCAG 2.0 rules, and that developers and site administrators do not properly consider accessibility guidelines. Our findings related to web accessibility of university hospitals also support previous studies that examine accessibility of Turkish university websites [ 28 , 29 , 33 ].…”

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Accessibility evaluation of university hospital websites in Turkey

Macakoğlu

Peker

2022

Univ Access Inf Soc

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Hospital web pages serve as an interactive communication resource to meet the needs of patients, healthcare professionals and other stakeholders. The aim of this study is to present the accessibility analysis of 58 university hospital websites in Turkey. For this purpose, websites of the selected university hospitals were analyzed using two different online automated testing tools. The results showed that university hospital websites in Turkey had low compliance levels according to the WCAG 2.0 guidelines. Most of the websites did not even meet the minimum requirements for compliance level A. In addition, almost all of the websites had broken links and about a third of the websites had problems with accessing from mobile devices. Moreover, some important clues that draw attention to the accessibility problems of websites are also discussed in this study. Hence, the results of this study provide feedback to developers and administrators to improve the accessibility of these websites.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

Accessibility evaluation of university hospital websites in Turkey

Macakoğlu

Peker

2022

Univ Access Inf Soc

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“…Meski terdapat banyak software evaluasi situs web lain, namun SortSite 5.3.5 dinilai lebih unggul karena lebih rinci dalam mengadopsi kriteria evaluasi situs web WCAG (Tollefsen & Ausland, 2018). Keunggulan ini membuat SortSite banyak digunakan untuk menilai apakah suatu situs web sudah memenuhi kriteria yang ditetapkan oleh WCAG (Alismail & Chipidza, 2021;Kondoro & Mtebe, 2017;Reis et al, 2017;Yerlikaya & Durdu, 2017) .…”

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Evaluasi Situs Web Covid19.Kaltimprov.go.id sebagai Penyebaran Informasi Pandemi Covid-19 di Provinsi Kalimantan Timur

Irawan

Hidayat

2021

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Pandemi global Covid-19 memberikan dampak kehidupan manusia, mulai dari dampak sosial sampai dengan tata laksana pemerintahan. Selain berkutat pada pengendalian penyebaran penyakit, pemerintah di seluruh dunia juga menghadapi ancaman lain yakni penyebaran informasi palsu terkait Covid-19. Distorsi informasi ini pada gilirannya justru menghambat upaya pemerintah dalam menangani dampak pandemi dan menambah masalah baru. Untuk itu penyampaian informasi yang benar dan tepat sasaran menjadi penting dalam upaya penanganan pandemi. Pada titik ini, peran e-government dituntut lebih dari sekadar memindahkan proses bisnis pemerintah dari luring ke daring. Evaluasi dari situs web resmi pemerintah ditujukan untuk menilai apakah situs web tersebut mampu mendukung tujuan-tujuan pemerintahan serta mendukung terwujudnya Good Governance. Penelitian ini akan mengevaluasi situs web resmi pemerintah yang memberikan informasi resmi terkait pandemi di Provinsi Kalimantan Timur melalui laman covid19.kaltimprov.go.id. Evaluasi ini menggunakan software bernama SortSite 5.3.5 yang akan berfungsi sebagai alat penguji otomatis berbasis daring. Adapun hal-hal yang diuji adalah errors, accessibility, compatibility dan standards yang juga disebut sebagai variabel pengukuran evaluasi situs web berdasarkan panduan W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). Berdasarkan hasil evaluasi yang didapatkan dari aplikasi SortSite 5.3.5 didapatkan data bahwa masalah terbanyak pada situs web covid19.kaltimprov.go.id berada pada variabel Accessibility dengan 85%, kemudian variabel compatibility dan standards dengan rata-rata 72% dan yang terakhir adalah variabel errors dengan rata-rata permasalahan sebesar 71% atau lebih tinggi daripada standar yang ditetapkan oleh W3C. Tentu saja hal ini merupakan temuan yang mengkhawatirkan dikarenakan banyaknya permasalahan secara teknis yang terdapat dalam situs web covid19.kaltimprov.go.id, yang pada gilirannya dapat mengakibatkan terhambatnya penyebaran informasi yang benar dan resmi terkait Covid-19.

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“…Yerlikaya and Durdu (2017) analyzed the accessibility of Turkish public university websites in order to find common accessibility problems that may affect user interaction. This research is an evaluative research.…”

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Presenting a proposed framework for evaluating university websites

Niazi

Kamran

Ghaebi

2020

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Purpose This study aims to design a proposed framework for evaluating university websites. Design/methodology/approach This study is an exploratory mixed research. It was an applied research in terms of objective and used the Delphi technique and systematic review and meta-analysis approaches. Data collection tools were done through library studies, Delphi checklist and observation. The statistical population of the research comprised 17 experts who are designers of university websites and 20 Iranian university websites selected from the Webometrics website. The statistical data were analyzed using fuzzy methods, descriptive and inferential statistical methods and the SWARA weighting method. Also, the statistical analysis software SPSS 20 and Excel 2016, TOPSIS engineering software and MAXQDA were used. Findings Findings indicated that the dimensions of the designed proposed framework in order of their weights are credibility (0.130), reliability (0.125), usability (0.120), website design (0.110), functionality (0.104), content (0.100), page design (0.0922), efficiency (0.082), Webometrics (0.070) and systematic evaluation (0.067). Mebrate’s (2010) framework had the highest overlap (mean = 74.65), and Webometrics (mean = 18.5) had the least overlap and dependency (mean = 19) with the proposed framework. In the evaluation of the 20 university websites of Iran selected from the Webometrics site, the University of Tehran was ranked first with a score of 82.7 and Shiraz University was ranked last with a score of 75. Originality/value This study provides a comprehensive proposed framework for evaluating university websites that eliminates the shortcomings of all models, frameworks and methods of university website evaluation that focused only on one or more dimensions of university websites.

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Evaluation of Accessibility of University Websites: A Case from Turkey

Cited by 16 publications

References 11 publications

Accessibility evaluation of university hospital websites in Turkey

Accessibility evaluation of university hospital websites in Turkey

Evaluasi Situs Web Covid19.Kaltimprov.go.id sebagai Penyebaran Informasi Pandemi Covid-19 di Provinsi Kalimantan Timur

Presenting a proposed framework for evaluating university websites

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