Web accessibility evaluation of top-ranking university Web sites in Spain, Chile and Mexico

Máñez-Carvajal, Carlos; Cervera-Mérida, Jose Francisco; Piqueras, Rocío Fernández

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“…Similar accessibility study was carried out by Máñez-Carvajal et al (2021) in which researchers evaluated the web accessibility of home pages of universities of Spain, Chile and Mexico. Home page of websites of top-15 ranked listed in the ranking of Webometrics served as sample for this study.…”

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A case study of Web Content Accessibility of 15 top-ranked Universities of India

Kumar

2021

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Accessibility of websites are very important for making it web-based information for persons with disabilities which further reinforced by COVID-19 pandemic. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) has been developed by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and accordingly Guidelines for Indian Government Websites (GIGW) has also been developed. In this case study we studied the home page of websites of 15 top ranked Higher Education Institutions of India ranked by National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), started in 2016 for availability of basic accessibility features. The ranking used is of latest one i.e. of 2020. Qualitative observation has been made of the home page of each 15 universities and the NIRF website. Eleven fundamental accessibility features were taken in to account. Results revealed that most of these top15 ranked universities lack even basic accessibility feature making their websites inaccessible for persons with disabilities. Options like font size, screen reader, high contrast text also were not found on may website of top-15 universities. The website of NIRF had no basic features out of 11 considered in the study indicating a very poor condition of digital accessibility features of website of top ranked universities which needs urgent attention to achieve equity and inclusion as promised in NEP 2020.

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“…This study, like the previous one carried out in Chile, used automated tools to analyse the level of compliance of websites of these universities with the WCAG 2.0 guidelines. The results revealed poor compliance with WCAG 2.0 of web sites of universities of Spain, Chile, and Mexico (Máñez- Carvajal et al, 2021).…”

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A case study of Web Content Accessibility of 15 top-ranked Universities of India

Kumar

2021

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“…Ng et al (2020) examined how the information provided on the Internet influences the choice of HEIs by entrants and investigated the marketing tools of influence through online sources. Máñez-Carvajal et al (2021) found that among the main difficulties that users may face on the sites of HEIs are those related to the perception of information and navigation on the site; another problem is a low level of web-availability on the websites of HEIs of different countries. Vállez and Ventura (2020) argue that higher education institutions must apply SEO strategies to increase their popularity more effectively.…”

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Interest in universities based on search queries on the Internet

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The improvement of global Internet access and the COVID-19 pandemic, which necessitated mass testing of online teaching methods, have forwarded the competition between higher education institutions from the regional level and the struggle for the rich student into the competition for students in all countries. The paper aims to determine the influence of the rating of higher education institutions on the interest of Internet users by conducting a comparative analysis of the popularity of the official names of higher education institutions in search queries in Ukraine and Poland. To do this, a comparative analysis of the change in the interest in leading higher education institutions in Ukraine and Poland in search queries in the Google search engine is carried out. The analysis is performed using the Google Trends web application. As a result, it is found that a high position of the university in the national ranking does not guarantee more search queries about it on the Internet by both national Internet users and users from the neighboring country. In general, Internet users continue to be most interested in universities located in their region at the time of the search.

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“…Accessibility should apply in similar quality across all egovernment websites in Taiwan as it reflects a developed government's competency to care for one of its most vulnerable constituency, the disabled. Furthermore since the automated WAVE ACCESSIBILITY tool is also used the actual accessibility standards will be conventionally applied on the desktop websites (Campoverde- Molina, Lujan-Mora, & Garcia, 2020;Domínguez Vila et al, 2018a;Hassouna, Sahari, & Ismail, 2017;Król & Zdonek, 2020;Máñez-Carvajal, Cervera-Mérida, & Fernández-Piqueras, 2019;Nuñez et al, 2019;Paul & Das, 2020).…”

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Taiwan’s E-Government Usability from Foreign Perspective and Website Accessibility amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Almaghalsah

2021

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The aim of this research intends to investigate Taiwanese egovernment websites with regards to Accessibility and Usability. The automated WAVE Accessibility tool and Nielsen’s 10 Heurestic Principle based surveys of foreign users of the English egovernment websites were used to test Accessibility and Usability respectively. The study found poor results that were unanimous across the board for Usability and total of just over 100 errors for Accessibility was the best performing website. The study proves that further research and investigation is necessary if Taiwan wants to meet its own governmental ambitions with regards to egovernment.

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Web accessibility evaluation of top-ranking university Web sites in Spain, Chile and Mexico

Cited by 33 publications

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A case study of Web Content Accessibility of 15 top-ranked Universities of India

A case study of Web Content Accessibility of 15 top-ranked Universities of India

Interest in universities based on search queries on the Internet

Taiwan’s E-Government Usability from Foreign Perspective and Website Accessibility amid COVID-19 Pandemic

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