Table 1.
Usability testing categories used for the analysis of OUD websites.5
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
| “Accessibility” | This category evaluates the ability of users that have different computer literacy levels to easily access the information on a website that they are seeking5. |
| “Content Quality” | This category evaluates factors such as content on the website, how often the content on the website is updated, relevancy of the available content, and website layout that can be easily read5. |
| “Marketing” | This category evaluates the ability of users using search engines to easily find websites that they are seeking5. |
| “Technology” | This category evaluates factors in overall website infrastructure like the speed of a website, etc.5. |
| “General Usability” | In this category, the general usability score was determined based on an overall score from the four categories described above5. This category aims to evaluate the overall quality of a website5. |
| “Overall Usability” | In this category, the overall usability score was determined by rank order calculation based on the five categories described above and a weighted percentage was then applied5. |