Desirable attributes of public educational websites.

Full Abstract

Certain attributes are particularly desirable for public educational websites, and websites for ethics education in particular. Among the most important of these attributes is wide accessibility through adherence to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards for HTML code. Adherence to this standard produces webpages that can be rendered by a full range of web browsers, including Braille and speech browsers. Although almost no academic websites, including ethics websites, and even fewer commercial websites are accessible by W3C standards, as illustrated by the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science , even websites created on limited budgets and with an undergraduate student staff can fulfill these standards. Other desirable attributes, such as provision of annotation for all links and the use of annotated links to give the user alternate ways of ordering and organizing content, are important for making full use of the educational possibilities of hypermedia for websites.

Author information

Author/s: Whitbeck, Caroline (C);

Affiliation: Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science, Philosophy Department, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7119, USA. caw(-atsign-)onlineethics.org

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.; Review

Journal: Science and engineering ethics (Sci Eng Ethics), published in England. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2005-Jul; vol 11 (issue 3) : pp 463-76

Dates: Created 2005/09/29; Completed 2005/11/07; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 16190287, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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Comments and Corrections

CommentIn: Sci Eng Ethics. 2005 Jul;11(3):477-9. (PMID: 16190288)

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