READABILITY METRICS FOR WEB APPLICATIONS ACCESSIBILITY

Miriam Martínez, José R. Hilera, Luis Fernández-Sanz

2010

Abstract

In this work, an analysis of applicability of specific metrics to evaluation of understandability of web content expressed as text, one of the key characteristics of accessibility according to WAI, is presented. Results of application of metrics to check level of understanding of pages in English of different universities are discussed.

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in Harvard Style

Martínez M., R. Hilera J. and Fernández-Sanz L. (2010). READABILITY METRICS FOR WEB APPLICATIONS ACCESSIBILITY . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8425-08-9, pages 207-210. DOI: 10.5220/0002867902070210


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis10,
author={Miriam Martínez and José R. Hilera and Luis Fernández-Sanz},
title={READABILITY METRICS FOR WEB APPLICATIONS ACCESSIBILITY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,},
year={2010},
pages={207-210},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002867902070210},
isbn={978-989-8425-08-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,
TI - READABILITY METRICS FOR WEB APPLICATIONS ACCESSIBILITY
SN - 978-989-8425-08-9
AU - Martínez M.
AU - R. Hilera J.
AU - Fernández-Sanz L.
PY - 2010
SP - 207
EP - 210
DO - 10.5220/0002867902070210