- From: Schmetzke, Axel <aschmetz@UWSP.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 00:35:04 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-eo@w3.org
Pertinent to our eo discussion Tuesday. Regards/Harvey Hi folks, Are you aware of Ron Stewart's comprehensive evaluation of library databases-both in terms of accessibility and usability? If not, you may want to check out his (preliminary) article entitled "Accessibility of Online Databases. A Usability Study of Research Databases" at <http://tap.oregonstate.edu/ahg/>. To the best of my knowledge, Ron's study is currently the most comprehensive and most up-to-date study of its kind. It covers 37 different index/database vendors. The study was conducted between August and November of 2002. Ron's findings allow us not only to make better procurement decisions; they also enable us to ask vendors very specific questions. (For example: "In a recent study, your interface was found to have problems with x, y, z. What have you done to fix these?") Axel ******************** Axel Library University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
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