Study of the accessibility diagnosis on the public higher institutions website in Malaysia

University web pages play a central role in the activities of all students.In order to assess the current state of university web site accessibility, we performed an automated evaluation of the home pages of 20 Public Higher Educational Institutions of Malaysia. Two experiments were made in 2012 an...

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Main Authors: Abuaddous, Hayfa Yousef, Jali, M.Z., Basir, Nurlida
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/12052/1/PID122.pdf
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description University web pages play a central role in the activities of all students.In order to assess the current state of university web site accessibility, we performed an automated evaluation of the home pages of 20 Public Higher Educational Institutions of Malaysia. Two experiments were made in 2012 and 2013 to see if there is a significant change in the results.Three Online Automated tools were used along the two experiments to see the differences between numbers of accessibility issues discovered by each tool.The results showed significant issues and no big improvements have been made to the websites from 2012 to 2013.
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spelling uum-120522020-11-01T08:15:01Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/12052/ Study of the accessibility diagnosis on the public higher institutions website in Malaysia Abuaddous, Hayfa Yousef Jali, M.Z. Basir, Nurlida QA76 Computer software University web pages play a central role in the activities of all students.In order to assess the current state of university web site accessibility, we performed an automated evaluation of the home pages of 20 Public Higher Educational Institutions of Malaysia. Two experiments were made in 2012 and 2013 to see if there is a significant change in the results.Three Online Automated tools were used along the two experiments to see the differences between numbers of accessibility issues discovered by each tool.The results showed significant issues and no big improvements have been made to the websites from 2012 to 2013. 2013-08-28 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/12052/1/PID122.pdf Abuaddous, Hayfa Yousef and Jali, M.Z. and Basir, Nurlida (2013) Study of the accessibility diagnosis on the public higher institutions website in Malaysia. In: 4th International Conference on Computing and Informatics (ICOCI 2013), 28 -30 August 2013, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. http://www.icoci.cms.net.my/proceedings/2013/TOC.html
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