Roy Avery, Valerie Hagen and Scott Obert
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ed Gellenbeck, Computer Science
This research continues the ongoing studies of Web accessibility at Central Washington University.
Kelly Crooke, Lindsey Appel, Tammie Correll, and DJ Kingsolver researched the accessibility of CWU's Web pages in 2002. They limited their study to CWU's home page and the pages accessible within two mouse clicks from the home page.
We researched the accessibility of CWU's faculty course Web sites. These course Web sites are, for the most part, prepared by individual faculty members, many of whom are self-taught in the development of HTML pages and use content development environments like Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver
Since for most students, the time spent accessing course materials over the Web is huge compared to accessing the CWU institutional Web pages, we felt that an assessment of how accessible the course content is over the Web is important. Results from our study are presented on this Website as well as at SOURCE 2003.