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  • Towards Automated Accessibility Report Generation for Mobile Apps

    Amanda Swearngin, Jason Wu, Xiaoyi Zhang, Esteban Gomez, Jen Coughenour, Rachel Stukenborg, Bhavya Garg, Greg Hughes, Adriana Hilliard, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Jeffrey Nichols · 2024 · ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

    This paper presents a system for automatically generating whole-app accessibility reports for mobile apps, addressing key limitations of existing accessibility scanning tools. The work begins with formative interviews with eight accessibility QA professionals at a large…

    automated testing · accessibility testing · mobile accessibility · app crawling · machine learning

  • Creating an Open Source, Customizable Accessibility Checker for Content Authors

    Adam Chaboryk · 2022 · Proceedings of the 19th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

    This extended abstract introduces Sa11y, an open-source, in-page accessibility checker specifically designed for content authors rather than developers. Created at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) to manage accessibility across several hundred website…

    automated testing · accessibility tools · content management · open source · quality assurance

  • Evaluation of Assistive Technologies from the perspective of Usability, User Experience and Accessibility: a Systematic Mapping Study

    Tatiany Xavier de Godoi, Guilherme Corredato Guerino, Natasha Malveira C. Valentim · 2021 · Proceedings of the XX Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems (IHC)

    This systematic mapping study (SMS) investigates how assistive technologies (ATs) are evaluated from the perspectives of usability, user experience (UX), and accessibility — three interrelated but distinct software quality factors. The authors searched Scopus, ACM Digital…

    assistive technology · usability · user experience · accessibility evaluation · systematic review

  • Web Accessibility Evaluation in a Crowdsourcing-Based System with Expertise-Based Decision Strategy

    Shuyi Song, Jiajun Bu, Ye Wang, Zhi Yu, Andreas Artmeier, Lianjun Dai, Can Wang · 2018 · Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

    This short paper presents a crowdsourcing-based web accessibility evaluation system that addresses the scalability bottleneck in manual accessibility evaluation: expert evaluators are scarce (training takes years) and expensive, yet many WCAG checkpoints cannot be evaluated…

    web accessibility · crowdsourcing · accessibility evaluation · WCAG · automated testing

  • Unlocking the Potential of Web Localizers as Contributors to Image Accessibility: What Do Evaluation Tools Have to Offer?

    Silvia Rodríguez Vázquez · 2015 · Proceedings of the 12th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

    This paper investigates the role of web localization professionals (translators) in maintaining image accessibility when websites are adapted for different language audiences. The author identifies a significant gap: when websites are localized from one language to another, text…

    image accessibility · text alternatives · web localization · accessibility evaluation tools · quality assurance

  • HEUA: A Heuristic Evaluation with Usability and Accessibility Requirements to Assess Web Systems

    Ana Luiza Dias, Renata Pontin de Mattos Fortes, Paulo Cesar Masiero · 2014 · Proceedings of the 11th Web for All Conference (W4A)

    This paper from the University of Sao Paulo presents HEUA (Heuristic Evaluation with Usability and Accessibility), a questionnaire-based instrument that integrates usability and accessibility assessment into a single evaluation framework for web systems. The authors argue that…

    accessibility testing · usability testing · heuristic evaluation · evaluation methods · web accessibility

  • MIPAW: Modele of a Progressive Implementation of Web Accessibility

    Jean-Pierre Villain, Olivier Nourry · 2012 · Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

    This paper presents MIPAW (Modele of a Progressive Implementation of Web Accessibility), a framework for reorganizing WCAG criteria into a user-centric, phased implementation model. The authors, who lead the AccessiWeb reference list — the most widely implemented WCAG-based…

    WCAG implementation · progressive enhancement · accessibility strategy · quality assurance · accessibility evaluation

  • Application of Traditional Software Testing Methodologies to Web Accessibility

    Cynthia C. Shelly, Mike Barta · 2010 · Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

    Written by authors from Microsoft and the University of Washington, this paper argues that the evolution of web content from static documents to dynamic Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) demands a corresponding evolution in accessibility testing methodology — from post-hoc…

    accessibility testing · software development · quality assurance · shift-left accessibility · automated testing

  • A Web Compliance Engineering Framework to Support the Development of Accessible Rich Internet Applications

    Carlos A Velasco, Dimitar Denev, Dirk Stegemann, Yehya Mohamad · 2008 · Proceedings of the 2008 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A 2008)

    This paper from Fraunhofer Institute introduces Web Compliance Engineering as a new discipline within Web Engineering, and presents a software framework (imergo) designed to support accessibility compliance for Rich Internet Applications. The authors argue that existing…

    web compliance engineering · rich internet applications · accessibility testing · semantic web · EARL

  • Quantitative Metrics for Measuring Web Accessibility

    Markel Vigo, Myriam Arrue, Giorgio Brajnik, Raffaella Lomuscio, Julio Abascal · 2007 · Proceedings of the 2007 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

    This paper addresses a fundamental limitation of WCAG conformance levels (A, AA, AAA): they function as binary pass/fail thresholds that cannot distinguish between a site meeting all Priority 1 checkpoints and one meeting all Priority 1 plus nearly all Priority 2 checkpoints —…

    accessibility metrics · automated testing · accessibility evaluation · quality assurance · web accessibility monitoring

  • Effects of sampling methods on web accessibility evaluations

    Giorgio Brajnik, Andrea Mulas, Claudia Pitton · 2007 · Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '07)

    Brajnik, Mulas, and Pitton's Assets '07 paper is a large, careful empirical investigation of the sampling step in web-accessibility evaluation — the step at which an evaluator picks which pages of a site to actually test. For any site above a trivial size, full coverage is…

    web accessibility · accessibility evaluation · sampling methods · accessibility metrics · conformance testing

  • SAMBA: a semi-automatic method for measuring barriers of accessibility

    Giorgio Brajnik, Raffaella Lomuscio · 2007 · Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '07)

    Brajnik and Lomuscio argue that web accessibility cannot be managed without being measured, yet existing accessibility metrics are underdeveloped and almost universally tied to conformance with WCAG checkpoints rather than to the real-world barriers end users encounter. The…

    web accessibility · accessibility metrics · accessibility evaluation · accessibility testing · conformance testing

  • Semantic Web enabled web accessibility evaluation tools

    Shadi Abou-Zahra · 2005 · Proceedings of the 2005 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

    This paper by Shadi Abou-Zahra of the W3C presents the Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) as a Semantic Web-based solution to fundamental problems in web accessibility evaluation tooling. Abou-Zahra identifies that the accessibility evaluation tool market of 2005 provided…

    automated testing · accessibility testing · semantic web · EARL · evaluation tools

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