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Contents 1 Description 2 Mission 2.1 Goals 3 Events 3.1 Conferences and workshops 3.2 Call for papers 3.3 Next meeting 4 Work in progress 5 Results 5.1 Tools 5.2 Presentations 5.3 Videos 5.4 Teaching material 6 References 6.1 Journals 6.2 Books 6.3 Projects 6.4 External links 7 Activity leads 8 Members 9 About Media Wiki

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/accessibility evaluation methods applied to the Web Engineering field
• Integration of usability and accessibility into Web development processes
• Comparison of tools for Web usability and accessibility
• Comparison of existing approaches for Web usability/accessibility evaluation
• 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

• Yorktown Heights, New York, USA, on 2008-07-14 (during ICWE 2008)

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
• The Usability Testing Environment (UTE)
• NIST Web Metrics tools

Presentations

Videos

• Accesibilidad Web (in Spanish, 84Mb, 30 minutes)

Teaching material

References

Journals

• Journal of Web Engineering, Rinton Press.
• World Wide Web, Springer US.

Books

• Maturing Usability: Quality in Software, Interaction and Value

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

• http://www.w3.org/WAI/
• http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
• Usable Web, 786 links about Web Usability
• Usability.gov, guide for developing usable & useful Web sites
• Accessites.org, What is the frontier betwwen Web Usability and Web Accessibility?

Activity leads

• Silvia Abrahao, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
• Vicente Luque Centeno, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Members

• Members list
• Send mail us to request a WUAnet account.

About Media Wiki

• User's Guide
• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list
• Editing tips and tricks