Research on Accessibility of Higher Education Websites
Table of Contents
- Research on
Accessibility of
Higher Education
Websites - Five Research Questions
- Five Research Questions (cont.)
- Five Research Questions (cont.)
- The Sample
- The Websites
- The Websites (cont.)
- The Checkpoints
- The Checkpoints (cont.)
- Three Assessments
- Three Groups
- Timeline
- How were letters received?
- And the second letter?
- Third letter and mini-assessment
- Research Question #1
- Mean scores on a 1-3 scale
- Mean scores (cont.)
- Research Question #2
- Results by Carnegie
- Results by Carnegie (cont.)
- Research Question #3
- Results: Alt text on images
- Research Question #4
- Confounding Variables
- Significant Overall Change
- Effect of Outreach
- Effect of Outreach (cont.)
- Research Question #5
- Slide 30
- Implications
- Web Accessibility CBI
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Implications
- Be specific in your advocacy, and start with small steps (one improvement to a web page's accessibility is better than none)
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies. These technologies will be deployed, whether or not they're accessible. So we need to work hard to ensure that they are accessible.