[Air-L] Anybody workiing assessing web sites for accessibility and safe browsing

[Peter Timusk]

Thanks Joly that's a good start and I do follow the a11y conferences in my city so myself I know many of the issues with accessibility list on that site.

That may be a good analysis list to start with.

Peter Timusk
peterotimusk at gmail.com
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> On Nov 15, 2015, at 3:08 PM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
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> ​try http://a11yproject.com/​
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>> On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Peter Timusk <peterotimusk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I wonder if anyone is interested in working on a study with me independently
>> (I am outside of a school research program at least funding wise. My
>> employer also would not support my work on this.) on this theme.?
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>> My paper idea for #IR17 or #IR18 ( I like the idea of going to Estonia).
>> News and entertainment web sites and poor design for accessibility and safe
>> browsing: a survey of North American Entertainment Media websites from a
>> code and performance quality perspective.
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>> I would welcome help with constructing a sampling frame list of web sites
>> that would be better than my own subjective understanding "North American
>> Entertainment Media websites".  I would like to have a large sample that
>> produces more than a 1000 web site study units. Given underlying web code
>> may be in English perhaps the sample could work more internationally but
>> there my socio-cultural knowledge would fail to know what web sites are
>> what. May be every world cities (> 100,000 people) former print newspaper's
>> current web site.
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>> I would also welcome another coder like myself who would like to help with
>> downloading/scrapping  web site code or other ways of seeing the web sites
>> like inaccessible colour schemes or suspicious linking and autoplay
>> features. The artifacts  from these web sites would then show poor design
>> and we would otherwise analysis the code or web site designs in an
>> accessibility  and code performance assessment. I may have my own
>> limitations with understanding how web site construction affects performance
>> and accessibility though I do read and follow accessibility in web design.
>> May be someone who knows design philosophy could be helpful constructing the
>> analysis.
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>> The results would be useful for a number of uses including building better
>> web sites in the future and assessing just how badly old media like city
>> newspapers have become online. Of course we could produce statistics like
>> most commonly used web design content management systems etc. or most
>> commonly used colour.
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