A Framework and a Language for Usability Automatic Evaluation of Web Sites by Static Analysis ofHTML Source Code

摘要

Usability guidelines are supposed to help web designers to design usable sites.Unfortunately, studies carried out that applying these guidelines by designersis difficult, essentially because of the way of structuring or formulating them.One possible way to help designers in their task is to provide them with toolsthat evaluate the designed site (during or after design) and alerts them aboutusability errors. Ideally, these tools would support an appropriate guidelinesdefinition language that enables structuring any guideline in an evaluationorientedform. In this paper we propose a framework and guideline definitionlanguage for usability (automatic) evaluation.