• DocumentCode
    2561009
  • Title

    A study on web experience among visually impaired users in Malaysia

  • Author

    Bavani, R. ; Jaafar, Azizah ; Yatim, Noor Faezah Mohd

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Sci., Univ. of Nottingham (UNMC), Selangor, Malaysia
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    13-15 Dec. 2010
  • Firstpage
    11
  • Lastpage
    15
  • Abstract
    This study focused on the web experience and barriers among visually impaired (VIM) users in Malaysia when accessing web pages with screen readers. In this study, eight visually impaired users were interviewed and reported major problems related to images, hyperlinks and page layout. Based on findings from qualitative survey, a comparative analysis was performed with (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) WCAG 2.0.
  • Keywords
    Internet; handicapped aids; information retrieval; Malaysia; VIM; WCAG 2.0; Web content accessibility guidelines; Web experience; visually impaired user; Guidelines; Interviews; Layout; Navigation; Usability; Web pages; WCAG 2.0; visually impaired user; web accessibility;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    User Science and Engineering (i-USEr), 2010 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Shah Alam
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-9048-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IUSER.2010.5716714
  • Filename
    5716714