University of Illinois Tools and Techniques for Functional Web Accessibility

Rangin, Hadi Bargi

doi:10.1007/11788713_34

Cited by 6 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Today’s commercial LMSs, such as Angel, Blackboard, Canvas, and Desire2Learn, and the open-source software, such as Moodle and SAKAI, present a panoply of tools for delivering curriculum. Based on our own experiences with testing these systems as well as current research (Lanier, 2010; Rangin, Petri, Thompson, Humbert, & Hahn, 2013), we know that not all these tools are accessible to students and instructors with disabilities.…”

Section: Strategies For Paying Attentionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Paying Attention to Accessibility When Designing Online Courses in Technical and Professional Communication

Oswal

Melonçon

2014

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Roughly 1 out of 10 students in our classrooms has some form of disability, and now that a growing number of technical and professional communication (TPC) courses and programs are offered online, scholars need to adequately address accessibility in online course design. Calling on the field to “pay attention” to this issue, the authors report the results of a national survey of online writing instructors and use Selfe’s landmark essay as a way to theoretically frame the results. They conclude by offering strategies for TPC instructors to design more accessible online courses.

show abstract

Section: Strategies For Paying Attentionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Paying Attention to Accessibility When Designing Online Courses in Technical and Professional Communication

Oswal

Melonçon

2014

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Some studies have focused on developing and improving automated software tools for evaluating web accessibility (e.g. Benavidez et al , 2006; Rangin, 2006). A study conducted to examine 30 automated software tools found that 50 per cent of these tools support WCAG 1.0, but only 23 per cent support all three WCAG 1.0 priority levels (Englefield et al , 2005).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating government website accessibility

Hong

Katerattanakul²,

Lee

2007

Management Research News

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

PurposeThis study seeks to provide insightful information about web accessibility based on human judgment in one Asian country (i.e. South Korea) in comparison to the USA.Design/methodology/approachThis study applies both the automated software tool and the human review of web content to measure website accessibility.FindingsOverall accessibility errors found from the Korean government websites are approximately two times higher than those from the US government websites. The accessibility errors are found in virtually every non‐text information content group. Finally, results of the manual evaluation conducted by human experts show fewer accessibility errors than those found in the evaluation conducted by the automated software tool.Research limitations/implicationsBecause of the limited number of the websites evaluated and the automated software tools used in this study, the generalization of its findings may be inappropriate. However, the redundant accessibility errors identified by the automated software tools discussed in this study shall encourage research activities to improve these tools. Finally, a longitudinal study to identify effective mechanisms improving website accessibility and further studies on effects of cultural differences among countries on their website design would be useful.Practical implicationsThe high accessibility errors found from Korean Websites may suggest the need for legal enforcement or other additional mechanisms in Korea to improve web accessibility among Korean organizations.Originality/valueThe results of this study can help experts efforts to implement policies to priovide equal internet opportunities for the elderly and the disabled.

show abstract

People with Disabilities: Automatic and Manual Evaluation of Web Sites

Petrie

Weber

2006

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

University of Illinois Tools and Techniques for Functional Web Accessibility

Cited by 6 publications

References 0 publications

Paying Attention to Accessibility When Designing Online Courses in Technical and Professional Communication

Paying Attention to Accessibility When Designing Online Courses in Technical and Professional Communication

Evaluating government website accessibility

People with Disabilities: Automatic and Manual Evaluation of Web Sites

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About