Module CPU4001 Website Production Occurrence Semester 2 - 2016/17 Document Specification of Assessment Item 001 Title Web Accessibility Issue Date 9.00am Monday 13th February 2017 (Semester 2 teaching week 4) Submission Date 11.00pm Monday 20th. March 2017 (Semester 2 teaching week 9) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Assessment weighting (there is no examination in this module) This is the first of two coursework assignments that are both equally weighted. To pass the module you need an average mark of 40%. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Assessment Item 001 – Web site accessibility report Instructions Investigate web accessibility and how content accessibility guidelines are helping to make the web a more easily accessible place for its users. The following would be a good starting point for your research: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ http://www.webaim.org http://www.joedolson.com/what-is-web-accessibility.php http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/ In addition to your research on accessibility issues, you should include an evaluation of at least two existing websites of your own choice. You should describe where the sites either succeed or fail in being usable by users of all abilities and disabilities. Report Content Guidelines The following questions should give you some idea of the issues that need to be considered and covered in the report (it might be useful to use these issues as report sections). a. What is meant by ‘accessibility’ in general terms? b. What is meant by ‘website accessibility’? c. What are the guidelines on web site accessibility? d. What are the legal requirements relating to the functionality of websites with respect to accessibility? e. Is there any evidence of companies having legal action taken against them due to their web sites not addressing web accessibility guidelines or laws? f. What do web site designers/developers have to do to make various types of web site content (e.g. text, images, sound, video etc.) accessible to all users, irrespective of ability or disability? g. What types of disabilities are there and how should each one be addressed in terms of designed web site content? h. What features of web sites make them good or bad in terms of how they address accessibility issues?Deliverables  A report of approximately 3000 words.  The report should include a references and bibliography listing your sources for your research; this should be formatted using the Harvard Reference system. Your references should be cited within the body of the report.  The report should submitted in PDF format, named using the following format: SMITH-John-js99amt-Ass001.pdf (use your own name, not SMITH-John) and submitted via the Turnitin link shown in the administration section at the top of the CPU4001 S2 2016/17 Moodle page. Turnitin will be configured to allow multiple submission attempts up until the assignment deadline. If Turnitin reports a similarity value greater than 20% you must make changes to the report content and submit again until a lower value is achieved. Work cannot be submitted via email or directly to the tutor: it must be submitted via the Turnitin link in Moodle before the deadline. Take regular backups of your work as PC crashes on the day of a submission deadline seem to occur frequently and cannot be used as a reason for not submitting work. Marking Guidelines The General Assessment Guidelines for Level HE4 (Year 1) will be used when marking the submitted report, see the following link for details: Assessment Guidelines Matrix (Level HE4, Year 1) Other useful resources LEAP online (see the section on Academic Writing and Referencing) Student Handbook (2016/17) - See section 7 on extensions and late penalties Assessment Regulations Academic Misconduct Regulations Learning outcomes This assignment is designed to address learning objectives 1 and 2 (see the module syllabus)… http://modules.bolton.ac.uk/cpu4001