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Revision as of 21:02, 30 January 2008
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Description
WUAnet is an initiative started with the aim of providing Usability and Accessibility solutions to the industry coming from the Web Engineering field. The main research focus is to ensure usability and accessibility into Web development processes. This leads us to identify and understand the user needs and plan for how to integrate those needs into the Web development process. This will be achieved by assessing the effectiveness of existing approaches for Web usability and accessibility evaluation. These include, but are not limited to:
- Guidelines for usability and accessibility
- Usability models
- Usability/accessibility standards
- Usability/accessibility evaluation methods
- Usability checkers
- Accessibility verifiers
- Logging tools
- Automatic metric capture tools
- Tools for repairing usability/accessibility of legacy Web systems
- Etc.
An issue of particular importance is when and how the usability/accessibility problems should be fixed. This will contribute to the creation of a body of knowledge about usability and accessibility in Web Engineering. Our ultimate goal is to transfer this knowledge to the Web development industry.
Mission
The main objective of the WUAnet is to improve current practices and tools for the evaluation and early-repair of usability and accessibility of Web applications.
Goals
- Systematic review of usability and accessibility evaluation methods applied in the Web Engineering field
- Integration of usability and accessibility into Web development processes
- Comparison of tools for Web usability and accessibility
- Definition of novel approaches for Web usability and accessibility evaluation
- Empirical validation of usability/accessibility measures
Events
Conferences and workshops
- IWWUA 2007 in Nancy, France
- IWWUA 2008 in Auckland, New Zealand
- ICWE 2008: International Conference on Web Engineering in Yorktown Heights, New York, USA
- WWW 2008 in Beijing, China
Call for papers
Next meeting
Work in progress
Discussion (members only)
Results
Tools
- Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools list at W3C
- W3C Mobile Web Best Practices checker
- WAEX: Web Accessibility Evaluator in a single XSLT file
Presentations
Videos
Teaching material
References
Journals
- Journal of Web Engineering, Rinton Press.
- World Wide Web, Springer US.
Books
Projects
- MAUSE: Towards the MAturation of Information Tecnnology USability
- TENUTA: Promoting Accessibility and Usability
- STATUS: Software Architecture that supports Usability
- UsabilityNet: Usability resources for practitioners and managers
External links
Activity leads
- Silvia Abrahao, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
- Vicente Luque Centeno, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
