Museo&Web
Planning Kit for a Quality Site for Small and Medium Sized Museums
Criteria of Usability for Cultural Web Applications (CWA)
From the Handbook for quality in cultural Web sites Improving quality for citizens, paragraph 2.4:
For the definition of quality in CWA’s, applying these principles to the planning and realisation of Web sites has led to the selection of Criteria of Usability. These criteria further address and define the problem.
The Criteria are divided into Categories that represent user needs to be satisfied.
2.4.1 Make contents perceivable
2.4.2 Recognise that the site is a Cultural Web Application
2.4.3 Recognise the aims of the site
2.4.4 Gain a general impression of the site before
proceeding to a detailed visit.
2.4.5 Be able to exploit quality contents
2.4.6 Presentation of Contents
2.4.6.1 Functional layout
2.4.6.2 Functional graphic
elements
2.4.6.3 Functional multimedia
elements
2.4.7 Site Navigation
2.4.8 Searching