有效的阿拉伯语网站设计的可用性指南：设计实践和课程，侧重于字体和图像的使用
Towards Usability Guidelines for the Design of Effective Arabic Websites: Design Practices and Lessons Focusing on Font and Image usage
摘要：
阿拉伯语网站占网络内容的1%，拥有超过2.25亿观众和41%的互联网渗透率。然而，在阿拉伯文网站中缺乏有关选择和使用适当字体类型、大小和图像的设计准则。文本和图像都是网站的重要多媒体组成部分，因此被选为本研究的调查对象。本文根据2019年第一季度Alexa互联网排名，对沙特阿拉伯73个访问量最大的阿拉伯语网站的字体和图像设计实践进行了深入研究。我们详尽的分析表明，国际设计建议与阿拉伯语网站的实际设计之间存在差异。阿拉伯文网站之间和内部在使用字体类型和大小方面存在很大差异和不一致。阿拉伯语Droid Kufi主要用于页面标题和导航菜单的样式，而Taxi则用于段落的样式。阿拉伯文本的字体大小从12至16像素不等，这可能导致可读性差。阿拉伯文网站大量使用图像，导致网站加载时间延长。此外，这些图像强烈反映了沙特文化的各个方面，特别是集体主义和男子气概。目前的阿拉伯语网页设计的做法进行了比较，从过去的研究结果，旨在改善阿拉伯语网页设计的国际设计和经验教训的推断。
英文摘要：
The Arabic websites constitute 1% of the web content with more than 225 million viewers and 41% Internet penetration. However, there is a lack of design guidelines related to the selection and use of appropriate font type and size and images in Arabic websites. Both text and images are vital multimedia components of websites and thereby were selected for investigation in this study. The herein paper performed an indepth inspection of font and image design practices within 73 most visited Arabic websites in Saudi Arabia according to Alexa Internet ranking in the first quarter of 2019. Our exhaustive analysis showed discrepancies between the international design recommendations and the actual design of Arabic websites. There was a considerable variation and inconsistency in using font types and sizes between and within the Arabic websites. Arabic Droid Kufi was used mostly for styling page titles and navigation menus, whilst Tahoma was used for styling paragraphs. The font size of the Arabic text ranged from 12 to 16 pixels, which may lead to poor readability. Images were used heavily in the Arabic websites causing prolonged site loading times. Moreover, the images strongly reflected the dimensions of the Saudi culture, especially collectivism and masculinity. Current Arabic web design practices are compared against the findings from past studies about international designs and lessons aiming at ameliorating the Arabic web design are inferred.
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