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

[Joly MacFie]

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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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