1st International Workshop on Web Usability and Accessibility. December-07. Nancy, France

To be held in conjuntion with the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering
	December 3-7, 2007 Nancy, France

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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

According to recent studies an estimated 90% of Web sites and applications suffer from usability and/or accessibility problems. As user satisfaction has increased in importance, the need for usable Web applications has become more critical. To achieve Web usability for a Web product (e.g., a service, a model, an application, a portal), the Web artifacts’ attributes must be clearly defined. Otherwise, assessment of usability is left to the intuition or the responsibility of people who are in charge of the process. In this sense, usability models (describing all the usability sub-characteristics, their attributes and the relationship among them) should be built and Usability Evaluation Methods (UEMs) should be used during requirements, design and implementation stages based on these usability models. Another major challenge in industry today is to make the Web more usable for everybody, including those with disabilities. Since there is no general method for evaluating the usability and accessibility of a Web application in all circumstances, the workshop can contribute to clarify several concerns such as the following: (leer más…)

Fuente: [gplsi.dlsi.ua.es]

tags: usability, aprendizaje, web2.0, social software, web 2.0, usabilidad