Abstract
Web accessibility concerns of building websites that are accessible by all people regardless of their ability or disability. The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has been established to raise awareness of universal access. WAI develops guidelines which can help to ensure that Web pages are widely accessible. Assistive technology is used to increase, improve, and maintain capabilities of disabled persons to execute tasks that are sometimes difficult or impossible to do without technical aid. Also it helps them achieve their scholar, professional and social activities. This paper exposes an approach to investigate accessible contents of educational websites to ensure and measure its compliance with accessibility standards for visually impaired people. This study focuses on studying existing standards and investigating its applicability on educational institute websites. This will increase accessibility on e-learning materials that are provided by educational institutes. In this paper a sample of websites at selected universities in Jordan are evaluated in terms of accessibility in comparison to some universities websites in England and Arabic region. Results show that accessibility errors of universities websites in Jordan, and Arab region exceed the ones in UK by 13 times, and 5 times consequently.
Highlights
The digitization of many public services such as shopping, banking, and library which facilitate our daily life, allow people with disabilities to live in almost the same way as those who are not disabled [2]
Comparing average number of errors between these categories show that accessibility errors of universities websites in Jordan, and Arab region exceed the ones in UK by 13 times, and 5 times
We have presented in this paper the importance of making website content accessible and user friendly by disabled person
Summary
The digitization of many public services such as shopping, banking, and library which facilitate our daily life, allow people with disabilities to live in almost the same way as those who are not disabled [2]. One aim of most governmental and educational institutions is to provide equate life for disable learner. Elearning is considered as one of the solutions for this group of people, the e-learning philosophy aims to provide information and learning materials to learners any where any time. Web accessibility refers to "the practice of creating websites that are usable by people of all abilities or disabilities". The aim of this paper is to check if Universities' websites in Jordan are accessible by the disabled learners and how much are they in compliant with WAI, in comparison with others in Arab region and UK.
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