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
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