Evaluating Web Accessibility Metrics for Jordanian Universities

University web portals are considered one of the main access gateways for universities. Typically, they have a large candidate audience among the current students, employees, and faculty members aside from previous and future students, employees, and faculty members. Web accessibility is the concept of providing web content universal access to different machines and people with different ages, skills, education levels, and abilities. Several web accessibility metrics have been proposed in previous years to measure web accessibility. We integrated and extracted common web accessibility metrics from the different accessibility tools used in this study. This study evaluates web accessibility metrics for 36 Jordanian universities and educational institute websites. We analyze the level of web accessibility using a number of available evaluation tools against the standard guidelines for web accessibility. Receiver operating characteristic quality measurements is used to evaluate the effectiveness of the integrated accessibility metrics.

@article{Kamal2016,
  title     = {Evaluating Web Accessibility Metrics for Jordanian Universities},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {7},
  number    = {7},
  year      = {2016},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Israa Wahbi Kamal and Heider A. Wahsheh and Izzat M. Alsmadi and Mohammed N. Al-Kabi},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2016.070716},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2016.070716}
}