Website+Evaluation

Evaluation of Computer science department website.

1.) Perceivable:

The point of this guideline is to give access to information present on the webpage in many different manners. Reason being, there needs to be mediums for access for people that cannot see, or have difficulty with vision. The guideline also requires that there is an alternative for the time based media present on the webpage. Another requirement is that there should be different layouts of the webpage, without losing any information. The reasoning for this is that different people like to see information in a different way. After an analysis of the computer science website, I would give the grade of Not implemented. All the text on the page has no option to be viewed in a different manner. So this does not pass the perceivable guideline. For the alternate time media, there really isn’t that much time media to begin with so it really isn’t applicable here. The next part was the looking for different layouts, which also I did not find.

2.) Operable:

For this guideline, what is being tested is whether the page is fully accessible from a keyboard, gives the user enough time to read content, does not cause seizures, and it helps the user navigate the content. After analysis, I would give a grade of complete. You can use the tab key on the keyboard to get to any and all the information. The nature of the website also does not have any time limits associated with it, so the user does indeed have enough time to use all content. There are also no flashing images or big contrast of colors that would cause seizures. And finally, the layout of the site is very simple and very easy to navigate, so it meets that requirement as well.

3.) Understandable:

The aspects being tested here are readability, predictions, and input assistance. The readability is very good and the text is simple to understand. There are not any unusual words present, and the language is all English. The reading level is also relativity low, so anybody can understand the content. Since the webpage is very simple, it passes the predictable aspect as well. All links work as normal, and the page is presented in a very intuitive way. There is not any input assistance on this page. This is because there are many user inputs available on this page. The only user input is mouse clicks. So after all this analysis I would give a grade of Partial Implementation.

4.) Robust:

To test the robustness, I examined the page source in HTML format. For all the tags, useful names were used so the purpose of the code could be determined without much work. There are start tags, end tags and everything is nested properly. All in all, I believe that the HTML was coded according to the standard. For this reason, I would give a grade of Complete.