"WEBSITE USABILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY OF OSLO UNIVERSITY LIBRARY"
Anna Brzeska
Master Thesis 2004
GOALS
ANALYSIS
>>Library Users
>>UBO Website
>>UBO Site Map
>>Broken Links
METHODS
Questionnaires
>>Part A
>>Part B
>>Part C
>>Questions For the students
Interviews
>>Answers
Card Sort
>>Result Cart Sort
Web servers logs
Usability testing
Accessibility testing
UBO website blind
Accessibility design
PROTOTYPE
WEBSITE REDESIGN
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RECOMMENDATIONS
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REPORT
References
>>>>Books
Glossary
Appendixs
Software
Supervisor
Examiner
Navigation
— NOFRAMES validity: NOFRAMES should be present and it should contain equivalent navigation options
— link to home: each page should contain a link to the home page
— logical path: each page should contain links to each intermediate page in the path connecting the page to the home
— self-referential pages: pages should not contain links to themselves
— frame titles: frames should set the “title” attribute
— local links validity: links that are local to the website should point to existing resources
— external links validity: links to external resources should be periodically checked
— site depth: the number of links that need to be followed from home page to other pages should not exceed a threshold
— table coding: table components should have explicit width and height
— image coding: images should also have explicit width and height
— download time: pages should download within given time threshold
— recycled graphics: images used in the website should be shared (so that browsers can cache them)
— hidden elements: pages should not contain elements that cannot be shown (like maps not associated to any image)
Clear and meaningful labels informative link labels: links pointing to heavy/plug-in dependent resources should specify that in the label
explicit mailto addresses: labels of “mailto:” links should contain the actual email address
missing page title: pages should have a title
table headers: tables should have headers and summaries
form prompts: within forms, text input fields should have a label
robustness (of the site with respect to the technology used by users)
browser compatibility: HTML code should not use proprietary structures
safe colors: page elements should use web-safe colors
link targets: avoid “_blank” target in frames; use correct targets for links leaving the frames
HTML validity: only standard HTML code should be used portable font-faces: standard font faces should be used in addition to desired ones
color contrast: background and foreground colors combinations should provide sufficient contrast
flexibility image ALT: images should have alternative textual descriptions other media ALT: videos, audios, applets and other objects should have alternative textual descriptions
imagemap links: links embedded in images should be available also in textual format
auto-refresh: duplicate auto-refresh links in the page body (both forward and backward ones)
forced downloading: links embedding an image in their label cannot be followed without downloading the image
tables/frames/font resizing: relative sizes should be used
support of users’ goals
form coding: forms should have “submit”, “reset” buttons
maintainability relative links: URLs that are local to the website should be relative
other spelling: spell-check the content of pages different media: report on the number of different media that are used in pages/website
keywords/description: pages should have appropriate META information to be searchable by search engines
site popularity: how many other websites point to the one under analysis
marquee,blink: avoid animated features
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Chalmers University of Technology
412 96 Göteborg ,Sweden
Contact: Anna Brzeska
My webpage on Chalmers
http://dtek.chalmers.se/~d99annab
This webpage URL address: http://hem.bredband.net/annbrz
Göteborg, october 2004