Rita İSMAİLOVA

Article | 2017 | Universal Access in the Information Society16 ( 1 )

The information in government web sites, which are widely adopted in many countries, must be accessible for all people, easy to use, accurate and secure. The main objective of this study is to investigate the usability, accessibility and security aspects of e-government web sites in Kyrgyz Republic. The analysis of web government pages covered 55 sites listed in the State Information Resources of the Kyrgyz Republic and five government web sites which were not included in the list. Analysis was conducted using several automatic evaluation tools. Results suggested that government web sites in Kyrgyz Republic have a usability error ra . . .te of 46.3 ?nd accessibility error rate of 69.38 ?The study also revealed security vulnerabilities in these web sites. Although the “Concept of Creation and Development of Information Network of the Kyrgyz Republic” was launched at September 23, 1994, government web sites in the Kyrgyz Republic have not been reviewed and still need great efforts to improve accessibility, usability and security. - Keywords: e-Government Usability Accessibility Security Kyrgyz Republic More less

Rita İSMAİLOVA

Article | 2017 | Universal Access in the Information Society16 ( 4 )

Government Web sites aim to provide information to the citizens of the country; therefore, they should be accessible, easy to use and visible via search engines. Based on this assumption, in this paper, the ministry Web sites of four countries namely the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Republic of Turkey were analyzed in terms of accessibility and quality in use. Tests were carried out utilizing online automated tools. Results indicate that the usage rate of Information and Communication Technologies by the government is higher in Turkey, which affects the visibility of government Web . . .sites but not their quality in use. Very few ministry Web sites of the four countries achieved AA conformance level on accessibility, many failed to pass conformance level A and AA checkpoints for accessibility errors. In order to ensure equal access to all their citizens, the countries in this study need to put more emphasis on designing government Web sites to be more accessible. - Keywords: AccessibilityQualityWeb performanceOnline evaluation toolsGovernment Web site More less

Aycarkın Sait Kızı | Rita İSMAİLOVA

Article | 2022 | Universal Access in the Information Society ( Published online: 08 October 2022 )

Search engine optimization (SEO) is an important tool that can predict the number of website visits, and good SEO strategies can help increase the visibility of educational resources. In the current article, the relevance between Search engine optimization (SEO) characteristics and the number of Moodle users in four Central Asian countries was examined. The analysis of learning management systems covered 38 Moodle websites. Analysis was conducted using semi-automated tools. Results suggested that although there is no difference in general SEO scores of Moodle installations, page structures and link structures in websites of differen . . .t countries were dissimilar. Also, server configuration practices were different. In addition, there was a positive correspondence between the number of visits to a website and the number of external factors; the duration of users' visits was correlated with page structure. As for the normalized number of visits, the analysis revealed that in Kazakh universities, students use the Moodle system more frequently in a day than in other countries, while visits to Tajik universities' Moodle platforms were the lowest; the difference was 53 users per day More less

Rita İSMAİLOVA | Gulida KIMSANOVA

Article | 2017 | Universal Access in the Information Society16 ( 4 )

Today the Internet is the easiest way to find information about any kind of organization, and the first impression about an organization is almost always based on its Web site. This study investigated whether the Web sites of the universities in the Kyrgyz Republic comply with prevailing standards of accessibility and usability and whether these qualities depend on location and type of ownership of the universities. The analysis was conducted using online evaluation tools. Based on the data collected, the hypotheses were further tested using the SPSS statistical package. The results show a low usability rating for the vast majority . . .of the universities’ Web sites. For 90.47 ?f the Web sites upload time exceeds 30 s; 52.38 ?f the Web sites have broken links; and 100 ?ave browser compatibility problems. The results of accessibility tests show low compliance with W3C-WCAG 1.0: error rates for Priority 1, 2, and 3 checkpoints of 83.33, 92.85, and 95.24 ?respectively. The results obtained and the results of an independent t test indicate that most of the issues of all Web sites tested are not of a technical nature, and occur mainly due to human factors related to Web application development. - Keywords: Higher educationWeb usabilityWeb accessibilityKyrgyz Republi More less

Rita İSMAİLOVA

Article | 2018 | Universal Access in the Information Society17 ( 2 )

It is important that university websites and services offered through their sites are used effectively, efficiently and satisfactorily by the whole target group of the university, including disabled users. However, universities in many countries are still unable to meet the criteria for web accessibility. This study aimed to test the websites of the top universities in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkey using automated assessment tools. The results showed that university websites are more popular in Turkey, and in Turkish universities developers pay more attention to the performance of websites, followed by websites of Az . . .erbaijani, Kyrgyz and Kazakh universities. The majority of the university websites in the study did not meet the WCAG 2.0 accessibility criteria. Only two Kyrgyz and two Kazakh university websites attained conformance level A, and only three, one Kyrgyz and two Kazakh, achieved accessibility conformance level AAA. Based on the results, it was determined that universities included in the present study need to devote more effort to making their websites more accessible for their users More less