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

fYear

2013

fDate

7-9 May 2013

Firstpage

156

Lastpage

160

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECONF.2013.45

Filename

6745534