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Category Archives: Web Site Accessibility and Usability

Center for Technology in Government Launches XML Toolkit

“This Web site offers a library of resources to assist in managing a Web site using XML. It was designed and developed as a product of the Web Site Management Using XML Testbed, conducted by the Center for Technology in Government in 2005 – 2006. The library of resources is intended to grow over time… Continue Reading

New UK Guidelines on Web Accessibility

Developed by the British Standards Institution, and reported yesterday by the Disability Rights Commission: “Key guidance on how to develop a website which is user-friendly for disabled people has been launched today.” “The DRC report, The Web: Access and Inclusion for Disabled People was published in April 2004. It investigated the accessibility of 1,000 British… Continue Reading

New on LLRX.com

The January 15, 2006 issue of LLRX.com includes the following articles: Deep Web Research Research 2006, by Marcus P. Zillman The Google Library Project: The Copyright Debate, by Jonathan Band Researching Laws and Information on Nutritional and Dietary Supplements On the Web, by Joel Rothman Election Law @ Moritz, by Sara Sampson Adobe’s Macromedia Studio… Continue Reading

Users Evaluate Websites in Blink of An Eye

Attention web designers: You have 50 milliseconds to make a good first impression! Authors: Lindgaard, Gitte, Fernandes, Gary, Dudek, Cathy, Browñ, J. – Behaviour and Information Technology, Volume 25, Number 2, Number 2/March-April 2006, pp. 115-126(12) Abstract: “Three studies were conducted to ascertain how quickly people form an opinion about web page visual appeal. In… Continue Reading

New Studies Evaluate US and UK E-Gov Accessibility

Assessing the accessibility of fifty United States government Web pages: Using Bobby to check on Uncle Sam: “This study evaluates the current accessibility of U.S. Government Web pages for people with disabilities. …The home pages of fifty U.S. government agencies were reviewed for accessibility based on Section 508 guidelines. This study establishes that the U.S.… Continue Reading

Hundreds of California Municipal E-Gov’t Sites Fall Short in Usability Tests

Study Reveals Government Websites Are Unusable To A Growing Number Of Californians “A comprehensive assessment of over 400 municipal websites reveals that 91% of California’s cities fail to meet basic accessibility standards. The results show that most city websites are unusable by a wide range of people, including blind, deaf, and mobility impaired individuals, as… Continue Reading

Website Usability Study Indicates Progress With Room to Improve

According to a new survey by Web usability guru Dr. Jakob Nielsen (presented at the Web Usability 2004 conference), net users are achieving greater success locating specific information using search engines than was previously the case. This is in large measure to improvements made by the search engines themselves, as well as more precision used… Continue Reading

New Survey Highlights Lack of Gov’t Website Accessibility

Achieving E-Government for All: Highlights from a National Survey, published October 22, by Darrell M. West, Director, Taubman Center for Public Policy, Brown University. More than 1,600 local, state and federal websites were reviewed using the free Bobby Accessibility Test. Several key facts: government data is increasingly migrating to the web; more than 100 million… Continue Reading