1. Accessibility analysis of websites of educational institutions
- Author
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Sanjay Kumar and Nishtha Kesswani
- Subjects
Web standards ,Focus (computing) ,05 social sciences ,050301 education ,Globe ,Websites ,Accessibility analysis ,Compliance (psychology) ,World Wide Web ,Web Accessibility Initiative ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,medicine ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,lcsh:Q ,Business ,lcsh:Science ,lcsh:Science (General) ,0503 education ,050107 human factors ,Web accessibility ,lcsh:Q1-390 - Abstract
Summary Earlier preparing accessible websites was not as important as it is today. Due to the increase in the accessibility issues and compliance of accessibility norms, there is an increasing research on the accessibility. In this paper we have tried to analyze the accessibility of the top educational institutions of different countries. Our main contributions of this paper are (1) Studying the present scenario of web accessibility compliance in the countries across the globe, with special focus on India. (2) Analyzing selected websites of top universities and educational institutions of different countries. (3) Based on the analysis, results have been generated to indicate the web accessibility of the websites. (4) Suggestions on improvement of the web page design of the educational institutions have been given thereafter.
- Published
- 2016