We seem to have gone a little bit Olympics crazy over here but as the games draw to a close the AbilityNet team look ahead at what we should be doing with the UK Olympics website by publishing their user testing findings of the Beijing 2008 Olympics website in the State of the eNation Report Beijing Olympics Special.
In this special report we asked disabled users to try out the Beijing Olympics website in our interaction lab. Poor information architecture and a lack of adherence to web standards result in an uneven playing field for disabled sports fans across the world…In a departure from our standard State of the eNation review procedure we brought a range of disabled users into our lab to perform some basic tasks on the website. Users uncovered a variety of accessibility and usability issues that only real-life user testing would have uncovered.
The report contains some fascinating user videos which give real insight to the barriers people face both in terms of guidelines as well as poor usability for people with disabilities - not to be missed. These all also come with either captioning or transcripts.
For further comment on the Olympics site see also E-Access Bulletin’s Web Accessibility - Beijing Olympics: Revisiting The Errors Of The Past as well as our post on the accessibility of the Beijing Olympics website
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