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Website Usability: Making Content Easy to Find
Pretest/Posttest Answers
- What is the definition of usability?
- The extent to which a product can be used by
specified users to achieve specified goals with
effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a
specified context of use. (ISO 9241:11 Guidance on
Usability 1998)
- How many people are affected by issues of web
accessibility?
- The percentage of people with disabilities in
many populations is between 10% and 20%. Not all
disabilities affect access to information
technologies such as the web (for instance,
difficulty walking, or a heart condition, would not
affect Web access) but many do. (Fact Sheet for
"Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0")
- What are the five types of disabilities that affect
Internet usage?
- Visual impairments
- Hearing impairments
- Mobility impairments
- Cognitive impairments
- Seizure disorders
- Name three good websites with information about
usability.
- What are three different kinds of usability tests?
- Checklists
- Field Studies
- Traditional Interview/Observation
- What three things are necessary for website
usability testing?
- Website
- Users
- Interviewer
- How much does a usability test cost?
- At a minimum, usability tests cost an
institution staff time. Hiring a contractor to
provide a full-scale usability test can cost much
more.
- What are the elements of a user profile?
- Who are the users?
- What do they already know about your site?
- Why do they want to use the site?
- How much experience do they have using
computers/web?
- What are the four types of users?
- Core users
- Trained users
- Typical Users
- Disadvantaged users
- How many users should you test?
- What is the goal of a usability test?
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