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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: review guidelines, usability models, usability/accessibility standards, usability evaluation methods, usability checkers, accessibility verifiers, logging tools, automatic metric capture tools, 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 of usability and accessibility of Web applications.
Goals
- Systematic review of usability/accessibility evaluation methods applied in the Web Engineering field
- Integration of usability and accessibility into Web development processes
- Comparison of tools for Web usability/accessibility evaluation
Events
Conferences and workshops
- IWWUA 2007 in Nancy, France
- IWWUA 2008
- ICWE: International Conference on Web Engineering
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
- WAEX: Web Accessibility Evaluator in a single XSLT file
- Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools list at W3C
Presentations
Videos
Teaching material
Bibliography
Journals
Books
External links
Activity leads
- Silvia Abrahao
- Vicente Luque Centeno
