Related Projects

REVIEL

The Resources for Visually Impaired users of the Electronic Library

This project was jointly funded by the UK Library and Information Commission (LIC) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). It explored the accessibility of library OPACs, JISC-funded services and other library services.

Website: http://www.cerlim.ac.uk/projects/reviel/index.php

Access

A short follow-up study to the REVIEL project was undertaken for DISinHE (now TechDis). It investigated awareness and use of accessibility design standards in UK higher education.

Website: http://www.cerlim.ac.uk/projects/access/index.php

NoVA Project

Non-Visual Access to the Digital Library

This Resource (now the Museums Libraries and Archives Council - MLA) funded project looked at how blind and visually impaired people approach and interact with web-based resources. This study looked specifically at user behaviour and experience. The results of the study helped develop a wider understanding of the information seeking behaviour of different groups of people using the Internet.

Website: http://www.cerlim.ac.uk/projects/nova/index.php

EIAO

The European Internet Accessibility Observatory

CERLIM is currently a project partner on this European Commission funded project which aims to establish the technical basis for a European Internet Accessibility Observatory (EIAO), which will present meaningful accessibility information about European public sector web sites. EIAO is co-funded by the European Commission, under the IST Contract 2003-004526-STREP.

Website: http://www.eiao.net/

The EIAO project is also carried out as part of a Web Accessibility Benchmarking cluster together with two other European Commission funded projects:

Support-EAM

and

BenToWeb

Website: http://www.wabcluster.org. The three projects are working together to develop a Unified Web Evaluation Methodology (UWEM) for possible adoption by the EU.