Webdesign, Usability and Accessibility, 15 credits
The course is discontinued from 2021-06-09
Contents
Taking the usability and accessibility in web design as a starting point the course objectives is to develop a more profound knowledge of planning, creating and administrating websites used in learning environments. Course content: -In-depth studies of technology -Usability, user centred design -Usability testing -Accessibility e.g. how to adapt websites to people with functional disabilities as well as accessibility issues for adapting websites to mobile units -Project work -Orientation about new technique After the course the student will be able to: -value and discuss web development using prevailing guidelines -analyse and evaluate websites from a usability and accessibility perspective -apply guidelines about usability in web development -apply guidelines about accessibility in web development -identify and describe possibilities to use the web as tool for learning
Required Knowledge
Webdesign, Basics or similar
Literature
Krug Steve
Rocket surgery made easy
: the do-it-yourself guide to finding and fixing usability
Berkeley, Calif. :
New Riders :
2009 :
v, 161 p. :
ISBN: 978-0-321-65729-9 (pbk.)
Mandatory
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Felke-Morris Terry
Basics of Web Design
Addison Wesley, USA :
2011 :
http://www.bokus.com/bok/9780137003389/basics-of-web-design/
Mandatory
Duckett Jon.
Accessible XHTML and CSS Web sites
: problem - design - solution
Indianapolis, IN :
Wiley :
2005. :
xxii, 458 s. :
ISBN: 0-7645-8306-9 (paper/website)
Mandatory
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