Project executed in collaboration with UTAD and as an introductory research project for the current platform of the University of Porto

1. Analysis of the "e-
learning café“ platform
The analysis took place in the
CERTIC department of UTAD

2. Analysis of the "e-learning café“ platform
• To test the accessibility of the site the following
technologies were used:
– morse code reader;
– head mouse;
– touch screen;
– eye movement reader;
– head pointer;
• The usability was evaluated performing:
– user tests;

3. Analysis of the "e-learning café“ platform
• Morse code reader
– the menu options are too close and have a narrow
selection area:
• very difficult to select the options in the menu bars;
• it requiers to much precision from the user;

4. Analysis of the "e-learning café“ platform
• Eye movement reader
– the menu bars are very close and narrow:
• the device doesn’t read the movement alterations ;

5. Analysis of the "e-learning café“ platform
• Touch screen (these devices may be used to
promote the e-learning café platform)
– the menu bars are too narrow:
• difficult to select if the user has wide fingers or has low
precision on touch;
• Head pointer
– the site doesn’t have good navigation keyboard
shortcuts:
• the options aren’t fully explored;
• it’s impossible to reach every option and information with the
keybord shortcuts;

6. Head Pointer

7. Analysis of the "e-learning café“ platform
• Head Mouse
– it’s impossible to do execute "drag and drop“
operations with this device:
• the site has many options with this function;
– in order to read the vertical menu, the user has to turn
his head to the right:
• involuntarily, the mouse will also flow to the right;
– the site proved to be very complicated to navigate
with this tool:
• causes physical disconfort to the user;

8. Head Mouse

9. Analysis of the "e-learning café“ platform
• The user tests revealed some flaws in usability
standards:
– there are menus where the mouse arrow turns into a
handler (common indicator of a link) but when you
click the option, it doesn´t lead you to a new page, it
performs simply a actionscript behavior;
– in the forum option, the user has to fill out a form in
case he wants to leave a message, if any errors occur
during the validation, all the information the user had
previously given will disapear;

10. Analysis of the “e-learning café“ platform
– the vertical menus were very hard to read: by instinct
the user turns his head to the left in order to read the
vertical information. In this case the user has to turn
his head to the right in order to be able to read the
information in the menu bars;