TY - JOUR
KW - Web accessibility
KW - Social inclusion
KW - evaluation
KW - Website Accessibility
KW - functional literacy
AU - E. Capra
AU - S. Ferreira
AU - D Silveira
AU - A. Ferreira
AB - Functionally illiterate users, that means those lacking reading, writing, calculation and science skills, are potential Internet users, so technological solutions must ensure that content is intelligible to them. The interface design guided by accessibility norms and may improve accessibility, but considering accessibility evaluations is an essential part of this process. Evaluation can be automatic, performed by specialists or performed with the participation of users. Some barriers are only detected with user tests. Usually, usability tests are adapted and performed with the purpose of evaluating accessibility, but most of works in this area dealt with persons with visual impairment. This paper aimed to research the behavior of functionally illiterate users, identifying important characteristics that the evaluators and specialists should consider in the performance of an evaluation of accessibility with this audience. As a result was generated a list of important characteristics that contribute to the adaptation of usability evaluation methods with functionally illiterate users. Besides that, it was elaborated a list of best strategies that the specialists and researchers should consider in accessibility evaluation with the audience under examination.
BT - Procedia Computer Science
DO - 10.1016/j.procs.2012.10.005
LA - eng
N1 - This paper focused on the functional illiterate users of the Internet and explored their characteristics. Based on the findings, researchers concluded that experts and specialists should consider this special portion of web users in their evaluation of web accessibility.
N2 - Functionally illiterate users, that means those lacking reading, writing, calculation and science skills, are potential Internet users, so technological solutions must ensure that content is intelligible to them. The interface design guided by accessibility norms and may improve accessibility, but considering accessibility evaluations is an essential part of this process. Evaluation can be automatic, performed by specialists or performed with the participation of users. Some barriers are only detected with user tests. Usually, usability tests are adapted and performed with the purpose of evaluating accessibility, but most of works in this area dealt with persons with visual impairment. This paper aimed to research the behavior of functionally illiterate users, identifying important characteristics that the evaluators and specialists should consider in the performance of an evaluation of accessibility with this audience. As a result was generated a list of important characteristics that contribute to the adaptation of usability evaluation methods with functionally illiterate users. Besides that, it was elaborated a list of best strategies that the specialists and researchers should consider in accessibility evaluation with the audience under examination.
PY - 2012
SP - 36
EP - 46
T2 - Procedia Computer Science
TI - Evaluation of Web Accessibility: An Approach Related to Functional Illiteracy
UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050912007673
VL - 14
SN - 1877-0509
ER -