Sustainable Development Goals

The Silent Language

Suggesting frameworks of citizen-sourcing via Government 2.0

Are government internet portals evolving towards more interaction, participation, and collaboration? Revisiting the rhetoric of e-government among municipalities

Critical factors for evaluating the public value of e-government in Sri Lanka

Platform governance for sustainable development: Reshaping citizen-administration relationships in the digital age

The 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2017) took place in New Delhi, India, between 7 and 9 March 2017. The conference was held under the high patronage of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, and it was co-organized by Digital India: National e-Governance Division (NeGD), part of MeitY, and the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV), the latter also serving as the ICEGOV Series Organizer1. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) acted as a collaborator.

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) such as the World Wide Web (WWW) has increasingly become embedded in everyday life and is progressively becoming indispensable for public, business, personal efficiency or even improvement of livelihoods [1] Web users including People with Disabilities (PWDs) can conveniently undertake a number of tasks that would otherwise be difficult or impossible But many Web applications such as e-learning, e-commerce and e-government are not accessible to PWDs including the blind Through Web accessibility guidelines, Web developers can develop Web applications that are accessible to PWDs However, majority of the available accessibility guidelines are difficult to integrate into existing developer workflows and rarely offer specific suggestions that are developer oriented In this paper, we propose a Web Design Framework for Improved Accessibility for People with Disabilities (WDFAD) The WDFAD provides precise guidelines on how to develop Web applications that are accessible to PWDs particularly the blind These are packaged according to the three components of Web applications namely; content, navigation and user interface Using constructs of the Non Functional Requirements (NFR) Framework, Web accessibility design objectives are represented as primary goals and sub goals The primary goals represent the high level accessibility design objectives, while the sub goals represent the requirements that need to be met in the Web development process in order to meet each primary goal WDFAD also illustrates the overlaps between the process of meeting each primary goal This unveils the optimal ways of achieving Web accessibility during Web design The precise nature of WDFAD and its packaging according to the main components of Web applications makes Web accessibility requirements potentially easier to understand and apply by Web developers Web Developers prefer precise and familiar tools due to their busy work life and daily interface and expression in formal instructions In addition, the global versus local classification of Web accessibility requirements in WDFAD modularizes the web accessibility guidelines hence making them easier to understand, apply and update

A web design framework for improved accessibility for people with disabilities (WDFAD)

Cultural characteristics of users play a significant role in their interactions and understanding of web based systems. Hence consideration of cultural issues in the design of a web based system can improve the usability of such a system. The relation between culture and the internet is symbiotic, that is, experience obtained from using the internet (with its rich cultural diversity) can also have an influence on the local culture. This makes culture a moving target. However to-date, not much research has been done about what cultural issues influence the usability of websites and the level of influence. This paper examines theoretically the cultural issues that influence web design/usability and the significance of this influence to the general usability of a website and also establish how culture can be utilized to develop more usable websites. Thus the main contribution of this study is to identify what characterizes usable websites with reference to cultural needs of the user, specific web features applicable to cultural dimension that can enhance cultural understanding and help web designers to customize the web sites to specific cultures.

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Cultural Issues and Their Relevance in Designing Usable Websites

Despite the fact that the proportion of people with disabilities in society has been increasing, many websites have remained inaccessible to them. In Uganda, a study on government agency websites established that 100% of the studied websites were not accessible to people with disabilities. While guidelines and tools for developing accessible websites exist in the public domain, research surrounding perceptions of IT workers about Web accessibility and how they interact with the guidelines at country level do not exist. In this paper, we examine the practice and perceptions of webmasters in Uganda on the accessibility of government websites and what can be done to improve the situation. This understanding is important to increase on the knowledge of why government websites in Uganda are not accessible and what the stakeholders can do to improve the situation.

http://www.cit.mak.ac.ug/iccir/downloads/SREC_07/Rehema%20Baguma,%20Tom%20Wanyama,%20Patrick%20van%20Bommel%20and%20Patrick%20Ogao_07.pdf

Rehema Baguma

Papers

Platform governance for sustainable development: Reshaping citizen-administration relationships in the digital age

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance

A web design framework for improved accessibility for people with disabilities (WDFAD)

Cultural Issues and Their Relevance in Designing Usable Websites

Web Accessibility in Uganda :A study of Webmaster Perceptions