Abstract:
The availability and usage of web content has increased considerably over the last few decades.
With this increase, the need for developing methods for evaluating the website usability has
also arisen, and several techniques to evaluate web usability were developed. Most of them are
manual processes, which are proven to be tedious and time consuming. Subsequently, many
software tools that support these methods have been developed, and efforts are still underway to
enhance the simplicity and accuracy of such tools. The main work presented in this paper is a a
software solution named as Electronic Validator. This tool was implemented with the aims of
developing an effective and efficient usability evaluation method which does not need expertise
of usability specialists for website evaluation. The top level design of the E-Validator software
system consists of two modules. These are the user interface and the evaluation engine. The
software takes web pages saved on disk as input, extracts its related CSS data files and converts
these information into a composite data structure. This data structure is then analyzed by the
evaluation engine, which then identifies usability problems in the web pages. These usability
issues are inserted into a report, which is displayed
