Scheduled Course Offerings
Spring 2009
Course Information
This course examines Web usability and accessibility and provides
students with the skills to analyze and critique Web content for
those issues. Students will learn the critical service that the
internet provides in the lives of disabled individuals, they will
learn how these individuals access and navigate Web content, and
they will learn how to design Web sites that accommodate them.
No prior knowledge of HTML or Web design is required. *This course satisfies Cerro Coso's Diversity graduation
requirement*
To do well in this class you should plan to dedicate between 8-12 hours per week to class activities, homework, and assignments (This assumes a 16-week Fall or Spring semester. Summer semesters are of a shorter duration, which increases the weekly workload.)
Course Objectives:
Upon successful complete of this course, the student will be
able to:
- Explain how readers access and comprehend information chronologically
on a Web page.
- Identify and analyze the obstacles to accessibility, usability,
and readability in Web design.
- Demonstrate a willingness to view circumstances from another
person’s point of view.
- Articulate multicultural considerations for designing Web
sites to be viewed internationally.
- Identify the challenges faced by a disadvantaged or under-represented
group of people.
- Implement behavioral changes that are a result of the willingness
to view circumstances from another person’s point of view.
- Articulate the societal contributions that disadvantaged
or under-represented people provide.
- Establish goals for correcting obstacles that disadvantaged
or under-represented people are faced with.
- Identify the technological solutions for making web sites
usable and accessible.
- Demonstrate leadership and effective communication skills
with peers through collaborative projects.
- Identify the laws that benefit disabled individuals and articulate
what their rights are.
Course Requirements
Students must have their textbook(s) the first day of class. If you anticipate any shipment delays from a particuluar retailer, you should find an alternate source that has the product in stock and ships overnight.
Requisite Skills
Students should have strong skills in computer and internet use, however. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- opening, saving, and managing files and directories
- installing software, plug-ins, and fonts
- troubleshooting operating system errors
- navigating the Web
- researching the Web
- sending and receiving e-mail with attachments
Take this quiz to see if you are ready for an online course.
Textbooks
- Krug, S. (2000).
Don’t Make Me Think – A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability. Indianapolis: New Riders Publishing. ISBN 0-7897-2310-7
- Brinck, T., Gergle, D., Wood, S. (2002). Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work. Elsevior Science & Technology Books. ISBN-13: 9781558606586.
Assignments
An online class entails 4 required asynchronous student activities:
- Completing textbook reading assignments
- Reading text-based lectures
- Completing tutorials, quizzes, assignments, and project
- Participating on the class discussion board, including several collaborative critiques
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