Parallel Session Details
- Title
- Usable Design and Accessible Web Sites
- Facilitator
- David Sloan, University of Dundee
- Room Requirements
- PC Cluster
- Time
- Wednesday 19 June 2002 (16:00-17:30)
- Other Comments
- Grace de la Flor's session will be held on Tuesday 18 June 2002.
Timetable
Details of the session timetable, links to materials, etc. can be provided
here. It is intended that this page will be made available after the workshop.
Draft Timetable
| Time |
Topic |
| 4:00-4:10 |
Introduction, Workshop Aims, and Background to Web Usability and Accessibility |
| 4:10-4:45 |
Web Usability for Non-Linear, Non-Graphic Browsing Environments |
| 4:45-5:20 |
Usability of Search Facilities and Forms |
| 5:20-5:30 |
Sum-up and Close |
About The Session
- Awareness of the need to design web resources with accessibility in
mind has never been higher.
- But users with disabilities may encounter serious usability problems even
in a technically accessible web page: W3C WCAG compliance does not guarantee usability!
- Today's workshop - looking at some aspects of site design which can cause
disabled users (and others) usability problems.
There are two parts to the workshop:
- Usability and non-graphic, non-visual browsing environments
- Usability of forms - focus on site search facilities
Background Reading:
About The Facilitator
David Sloan is Project Lead of the Digital Media Access Group, a Web
accessibility research and consultancy group based in the Division of Applied
Computing at the University of Dundee. The group have provided Web accessibility
audits and advice to a number of clients in the HE, commercial and public sectors.
David previously worked with the Disability and Information Systems in Higher
Education project (DISinHE), the predecessor to TechDIS.
Workshop Materials
- Exercise:
- [HTML format] -
[MS Word format]
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