TY - GEN
T1 - Web Accessibility of Palestinian Universities
T2 - 4th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications, CHIRA 2020
AU - Doush, Iyad Abu
AU - Awadallah, Mohammed A.
AU - Al-Betar, Mohammed Azmi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - University web portals are considered one of the main access gateways for universities. Accessibility of university online services is a major issue for undergraduate and graduate students with disabilities. Online registration makes people with disabilities more independent to register courses, add, drop courses, or attend courses independently. Yet, many people with disabilities in Palestine face major challenges when using university websites. In order to understand the issues that face people with disabilities when they use websites of Palestinian universities, this study evaluates the accessibility of the home pages of these universities during COVID-19. In order to evaluate partially the accessibility of Palestinian universities during COVID-19, we apply automatic evaluation on all homepages of eighteen Palestinian universities. The most violated guideline is empty link which is related to success criterion 2.4.4 Link Purpose. The second highest violated error is linked image missing alternative text which is related to the success criterion 1.1.1 Non-text Content. The obtained results show that all the universities websites are not conforming to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 level A.
AB - University web portals are considered one of the main access gateways for universities. Accessibility of university online services is a major issue for undergraduate and graduate students with disabilities. Online registration makes people with disabilities more independent to register courses, add, drop courses, or attend courses independently. Yet, many people with disabilities in Palestine face major challenges when using university websites. In order to understand the issues that face people with disabilities when they use websites of Palestinian universities, this study evaluates the accessibility of the home pages of these universities during COVID-19. In order to evaluate partially the accessibility of Palestinian universities during COVID-19, we apply automatic evaluation on all homepages of eighteen Palestinian universities. The most violated guideline is empty link which is related to success criterion 2.4.4 Link Purpose. The second highest violated error is linked image missing alternative text which is related to the success criterion 1.1.1 Non-text Content. The obtained results show that all the universities websites are not conforming to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 level A.
KW - Automatic accessibility evaluation
KW - Universities web accessibility
KW - Web content accessibility guidelines (wcag)
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85108056943
T3 - CHIRA 2020 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications
SP - 196
EP - 201
BT - CHIRA 2020 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications
A2 - Holzinger, Andreas
A2 - Silva, Hugo Placido
A2 - Helfert, Markus
A2 - Constantine, Larry
PB - SciTePress
Y2 - 5 November 2020 through 6 November 2020
ER -