try http://a11yproject.com/ On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Peter Timusk <peterotimusk@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.?
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.
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.
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.
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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