Citation

How to cite Paradise in academic writing, in tooling comparisons, or in any context where the source-level accessibility analysis claim needs an attribution. Both Paradise itself and the underlying W4A 2008 paper that the ActionLanguage intermediate representation (IR) descends from have suggested citations.

Citing Paradise

Suggested human-readable citation:

Dodd, B. Paradise: a multi-model accessibility analyser. Open-source software, GPL-3.0-or-later. https://github.com/bobdodd/paradise

BibTeX:

@software{dodd_paradise,
  author = {Dodd, Bob},
  title  = {Paradise: a multi-model accessibility analyser},
  url    = {https://github.com/bobdodd/paradise},
  note   = {Open-source software, GPL-3.0-or-later}
}

A DOI via Zenodo is on the release roadmap; the entry above will gain a doi field once the first tagged release lands. Until then, cite the repository URL.

Citing the W4A 2008 paper

For the theoretical foundation that the ActionLanguage IR descends from, cite the W4A 2008 paper directly:

Dodd, R., Green, S., & Pearson, E. (2008). The CISNA Model of Accessible Adaptive Hypermedia. In Proceedings of the 2008 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1368044.1368052

BibTeX:

@inproceedings{dodd2008cisna,
  author    = {Dodd, Robert and Green, Steve and Pearson, Elaine},
  title     = {The {CISNA} Model of Accessible Adaptive Hypermedia},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2008 International Cross-Disciplinary
               Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)},
  year      = {2008},
  publisher = {ACM},
  doi       = {10.1145/1368044.1368052}
}

When to cite which

  • Citing the tool — using Paradise in an audit, comparing it to other tooling, building on the API: cite Paradise.
  • Citing the theoretical contribution — the multi-layer CISNA Model, the adaptation layer, source-level accessibility analysis as a concept: cite the W4A 2008 paper as well as Paradise. The paper is the primary source for the framework; Paradise is the practical realisation.
  • Citing the IR specifically — work that builds on or extends ActionLanguage, the action-tree representation, or the JavaScript-to-tree transcoding: both citations.

Author and ORCID

Bob (Robert) Dodd. ORCID linkage forthcoming alongside the first tagged release.

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