Accessibility and usability evaluation of university websites in Afghanistan: a comparison between public and private universities
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Autor:in (Körperschaft)
Publikationsdatum
2022
Typ der Arbeit
Studiengang
Sammlung
Typ
01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift
Herausgeber:innen
Herausgeber:in (Körperschaft)
Betreuer:in
Übergeordnetes Werk
Universal Access in the Information Society
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DOI der Originalpublikation
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Reihe / Serie
Reihennummer
Jahrgang / Band
23
Ausgabe / Nummer
Seiten / Dauer
955-974
Patentnummer
Verlag / Herausgebende Institution
Springer Nature
Verlagsort / Veranstaltungsort
London
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Programmiersprache
Abtretungsempfänger:in
Praxispartner:in/Auftraggeber:in
Zusammenfassung
The world wide web as a service offered on top of the internet has become the information repository through which we access the web pages of each individual or organization. To make the content accessible for users with disabilities, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) developed the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). In addition to accessibility, the websites should be designed in a way that is usable for their users. As no previous research has been done to evaluate the accessibility and usability of university websites in Afghanistan, this research fills the gap by evaluating the usability and accessibility of public and private universities in Afghanistan and comparing the usability and accessibility status of public and private universities’ websites. AChecker and WAVE were the tools used for accessibility evaluation against WCAG 2.0 guidelines. For usability evaluation, a heuristic approach was used with eight dimensions. The results show that none of the university websites conform to the accessibility guidelines while violating various accessibility criteria. It was also found that a large portion of both public and private universities are ignoring the usability measures related to information structure, hyperlink conventions, multi-language options, navigational design, and the readability of text on the website. Public administrators, policymakers, website designers, and web administrators are to benefit from the findings of this research regarding the accessibility and usability of university websites in Afghanistan.
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Fachgebiet (DDC)
Veranstaltung
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Enddatum der Ausstellung
Startdatum der Konferenz
Enddatum der Konferenz
Datum der letzten Prüfung
ISBN
ISSN
1615-5297
1615-5289
1615-5289
Sprache
Englisch
Während FHNW Zugehörigkeit erstellt
Ja
Zukunftsfelder FHNW
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Begutachtung
Peer-Review der ganzen Publikation
Open Access-Status
Closed
Lizenz
Zitation
Mohammadi, M. K., Esichaikul, V., & Mohammadi, A. (2022). Accessibility and usability evaluation of university websites in Afghanistan: a comparison between public and private universities. Universal Access in the Information Society, 23, 955–974. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-022-00896-6