21 research outputs found
Website Accessibility in Western Australian Public Libraries
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has established international standards for website accessibility which attempt to ensure that everyone has the same opportunities to use materials published on the World Wide Web (Web). This article provides a summation of the research conducted into the accessibility of public library websites in Western Australia. A discussion is provided of the website audit methods used and results obtained. The research demonstrates the level of compliance with Australian and International standards as well as results of surveys used to determine the perceived willingness to comply with those standards, barriers to compliance and benefits of an accessible website
Web Accessibility Issues with Blackboard at Edith Cowan University
Website accessibility is a very real and pressing issue in Australia and internationally. Tim Berners-Lee credited with founding the Web, states âThe power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspectâ (Henry & McGee, 2010). This paper is the result of research conducted into the website accessibility of Blackboard as implemented at Edith Cowan University. This well-known commercial Learning Management System is used for e-learning access and content delivery. Testing was conducted to determine the level of adherence of Blackboard to internationally-recognized best practice web accessibility guidelines. An analysis of the results of this research demonstrate that while Blackboard scores âbetter than averageâ, this still constitutes a failing grade in terms of overall usability for people with visual disabilities. Incorporation of the features of the WCAG 2.0 would ensure that Blackboard meets current best practice guidelines
Website accessibility issues in Western Australian public libraries
Website accessibility is a very real and pressing issue for public libraries internationally. Tim Berners-Lee credited with founding the Web, states The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect. (Henry & McGee, 2010). There is wide-spread support for adherence to the Web Content Advisory Guidelines Version 1.0 and 2.0 (WCAG) throughout Federal, State and Local levels of government in Australia. The Guidelines have also been affirmed by the Australian Human Rights Commission, disability advocacy groups such as Vision Australia, and the Australian Library and Information Association. The Australian Government issued a press release in February 2010 which mandates conformance with WCAG 2.0 by 2015 for all government sites. In order to accommodate this, a new transition strategy has been provided by the Australian Government. While adherence to the Guidelines is clearly mandated, the level of adherence within the public libraries in Western Australia has not been tested until now. Public libraries, by their very nature, should be providing an equality of access to their collections and services. This research assesses the level of adherence to the Web Content Advisory Guidelines (Version 1.0 and 2.0) of public libraries within Western Australia. Through on-line website accessibility evaluation tools, manual checklists, surveys and interviews, this research identifies the level of compliance to these Guidelines as well as the implementation barriers and level of understanding within Western Australia. The assessment of the website accessibility of public libraries in Western Australia operated as a case study methodology incorporating both quantitative and qualitative assessment tools. An analysis of the research methods and findings is provided in this dissertation. The findings of the research demonstrate that at present no public library website in Western Australia with an on-line catalogue link, other than the State Library of Western Australia, conforms to the WCAG Version 1.0 or 2.0 at any level of compliance. Libraries identify a number of barriers to implementation of the guidelines including lack of understanding of the necessity of compliance, lack of understanding of the benefits of compliance, time and cost. The theoretical framework suggested in this research suggests that with increased understanding of the issues and increased support, libraries should be in a better position to work toward website accessibility
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La formaciÃģn en competencias informÃĄticas e informacionales desde la Escuela Interamericana de BibliotecologÃa con el apoyo una plataforma de e-learning. Experiencias y resultados.
The internet, as the most important media in the development of the information
society, has generated a new type of user of information, a new type of student, commonly
described as digital native. This text presents how in library education in the InterAmerican School of Library and Information Science at the University of Antioquia (Medellin, Colombia), using an online learning platform (Moodle), through different personalized and collaborative learning activities and tools, that helps students, the future's librarians, to acquire computers and information competencies in several academic courses since 2007 with excellent experiences and outcomes
Web accessibility initiatives in Malaysian academic libraries: enthusiasm and challenges
As a visual medium for structuring and displaying information, website plays an important tool in library service. In fact it has now become the most usable feature that users use when accessing the library without even being there in person. This phenomenon has grown even faster as the search browser and social media applications become a way of life for most people and the influence on how the library should react in dissemination information. Academic libraries on the other hand faced a crucial decision whether to disembark the traditional library services to cope with the current evolution or keep the conventional way literally. These perplexing conditions happened as the academic libraries have to manage the academic stringent in teaching and studying that demand their students to familiar themselves with physical materials. Other crucial issue is that there are not many academic resources available online as there are still matters of copyright and restricted regulations to comply with. On such background, this paper will examine the experience from 20 Malaysian public university libraries in handling the web accessibility issues and evaluates the current state of web accessibility compliance of their website as outlined by WCAG 2.0 and Section 508 based on AChecker and WAVE tools. The results suggest a relatively low level of compliance to the guidelines as specified and conclude that sharing information in an open access framework is crucial in web accessibility but the flexibility and capability of the libraries should also be equal as wel
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The research method uses mixed methods research. Ten participants were visually impaired, five were blinded and five were low-vision. The data were collected by asking the participants to finish six tasks on the homepage of the NLT Website and think aloud while working on the tasks. After each task was completed, an interview was conducted. Major findings are as follows: 1) The majority of the visually impaired could complete three equal tasks successfully and unsuccessfully. Most of them could be successful in Task 5 Get access to D-Library while all could not complete Task 6 Ask a librarian on the website (e.g. questions on website usage). 2) The task that took the longest time for the visually impaired to complete was Task 4 Search for a book by title: âThai Historyâ 3) All visually impaired encountered the web accessibility problems when trying to complete Task 6 Ask a librarian on the website (e.g. questions on website usage). In regard to the task with the most problems, it was Task 3 Search for a book by keyword: âComputerâ. 4) According to Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG), the visually impaired had a total of 62 problems: 28 were the problems of operability, 22 were the problems of understandability, 11 were the problems of perceivability, and the other one was the problem of robustness.  āļāļģāļŠāļģāļāļąāļ: āļāļ§āļēāļĄāļŠāļēāļĄāļēāļĢāļāđāļāļāļēāļĢāđāļāđāļēāļāļķāļāđāļāđāļāļēāļāđāļ§āđāļ āļāļēāļĢāļāļāļāđāļāļāđāļ§āđāļāđāļāļāđ āļŦāļāļŠāļĄāļļāļāđāļŦāđāļāļāļēāļāļī āļāļđāđāļāļīāļāļēāļĢāļāļēāļāļŠāļēāļĒāļāļē Keywords: Web accessibility, Web design, National Library of Thailand, Visually impaire