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Examining how web designers' activity systems address accessibility: Activity theory as a guide.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Examining how web designers' activity systems address accessibility: Activity theory as a guide./
Author:	Russell, Kyle.
Description:	179 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-08A(E).
Subject:	Education, Technology of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3618329
ISBN:	9781303865565

Examining how web designers' activity systems address accessibility: Activity theory as a guide.
Russell, Kyle.

Examining how web designers' activity systems address accessibility: Activity theory as a guide. - 179 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2014.

While accessibility of information technologies is often acknowledged as important, it is frequently not well addressed in practice. The purpose of this study was to examine the work of web developers and content managers to explore why and how accessibility is or is not addressed as an objective as websites are planned, built and maintained. Concepts from Activity Theory, particularly as they apply to design, were used to frame the results and discussion of this study. The collective activities of respondents resulted in accessibility issues in their respective sites that were typical of the issues found more generally, such as missing or unhelpful alternative text, missing or misused headings and untagged PDF files. The Human-Artifact Model was used both to explain how and why accessibility barriers are routinely built into information technologies and how altering the design of authoring tools could break this cycle. Implications for accessibility guidelines and future research approaches are discussed.

ISBN: 9781303865565Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018012
Education, Technology of.

Examining how web designers' activity systems address accessibility: Activity theory as a guide.
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