Title :
Accessibility as an Indicator of Jordanian E-Government Website Quality
Author :
Nizar, AbuAli Amer ; Obedidat, Abdelsalam ; Abu-Addose, Haifa Yousef
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Inf. Technol., Philadelphia Univ., Jordan
Abstract :
The aim of this paper is to evaluate Jordan E-Government Web site from the accessibility perspective. An automatic testing tool is called Bobby were used to provide in-depth technical direction on HTML issues relating to accessibility. The results from the evaluation process showed that Jordan E-Government Web site lacks accessibility and needs further improvements to improve its quality. Therefore, a list of recommendations and guidelines were provided in order to make this Web site accessible to everyone including people with certain disabilities.
Keywords :
Web design; government data processing; human computer interaction; human factors; hypermedia markup languages; Bobby automatic testing tool; HTML; Jordanian e-government Web site quality; Web site accessibility; Web site design; disabled people; Automatic testing; Electronic government; Guidelines; HTML; Navigation; Standards; Web sites; ACCESSIBILITY; E-GOVERNMENT; WEBSITE;
Conference_Titel :
e-Learning "Best Practices in Management, Design and Development of e-Courses: Standards of Excellence and Creativity" , 2013 Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Manama
DOI :
10.1109/ECONF.2013.45
