Advances in universal web design and evaluation research, trends and opportunities /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Kurniawan, Sri, 1970-, Zaphiris, Panayiotis.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2007.
• Subjects: Web sites > Design.; Computers and people with disabilities.; Assistive computer technology.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

"This book deals with a significant but often overlooked issue of Web design: universality. As the internet has become more pervasive, information disseminated through the Web grows in an exponential rate; there is a call for more universal design so that more people from different backgrounds...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1. Web accessibility and the needs of users with disabilities / Aspasia Dellaporta
• 2. Failing the disabled community : the continuing problem of Web accessibility / David Kreps, Alison Adam
• 3. Designing children's multimedia / Bridget Patel
• 4. Bonded design : a methodology for designing with children / Andrew Large, Valerie Nesset, Jamshid Beheshti, Leanne Bowler
• 5. Ageing and its implications for elderly Web experience / Syariffanor Hisham, Alistair D.N. Edwards
• 6. Gender issues in HCI design for Web access / Stefania Boiano, Ann Borda, Jonathan P. Bowen, Xristine Faulkner, Giuliano Gaia, Sarah McDaid
• 7. Interpreting the female user : how Web designers conceptualise development of commercial WWW sites to satisfy specific niche markets / Noemi Maria Sadowska
• 8. From computer-mediated colonization to culturally aware ICT usage and design / Charles Ess
• 9. A case study : creating and designing a bilingual resource Web site for Somali immigrants / Sauman Chu, Mauricio Arango, Charles Earl Love Yust
• 10. Web site design for people with dementia / Nada Savitch, Panayiotis Zaphiris
• 11. Comparing comprehension speeds and accuracy of online information in students with and without dyslexia / Sri Kurniawan, Gerard V. Conroy
• 12. Implementing accessible online learning for blind and visually impaired students : a pilot study / Hugh O'Neill, Inmaculada Arnedillo-Sánchez, Brendan Tangney.