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Brandon Britto [|ECE Website]

The ECE website is the home page for the electrical and computer engineering department at the university. Here they host news about everything going on in the department from current faculty, available resources, research being conducted, and everything else that has to do with the department.

Perceivable: Partial Implementation The site is designed in a way that all of the information is contained, by default, in a column that is about 1/3 the width of the page itself. This leads to a lot of the information being squeezed together in the midsection. The default font size selected for this page is also rather small, but that can be fixed by zooming to the page. As for the media on the page pretty much all of the videos are hosted on youtube so they do support captions. While the layout of the website is pretty simple, as stated before it is a bit cluttered and i feel as though they do not take full advantage of the page real estate. One added good note is that most of the links have mouse over properties so they change color or highlight themselves when the event occurs.

Operable: Partial Implementation While it is possible to keyboard through most of the sites links and sections, this ability does not scope to everything you can do with a mouse. For example their are tabs that if you mouseover, they open another set of options. This is impossible to do with just the keyboard and thus the user losses a lot of the sites functionality. But aside from that the site uses a common navigation column and row on each page so every page on the website is as accessible as the home page, and makes for quick navigation between pages.

Understandable: Complete The ECE sites main goal is to convey information about the department and it does so well. Most of the information is directed toward a targeted audience(ECE affiliates, students, and faulty) so some information may not be understandable to all, but its purpose is met. Also, since the site it mostly text, most language programs should be able to translate the information.

Robust: Complete Site was designed with HTML/CSS and opens up in IE, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome, so it seems to be robust enough to handle user needs.