Title
Toward better web accessibility
Abstract
Web page evaluation systems are needed to evaluate the accessibility of websites. Such evaluation is important so that website administrators can change their websites so people with disabilities would be able to use them. Currently, such systems produce varying results that are not always useful for website administrators. Moreover it is difficult to ascertain for sure to what degree the web pages conform to accessibility guidelines. In this paper, the current state of open-source web accessibility evaluation tools is reviewed. As a result, AChecker, a system that evaluates web page compliance with WCAG 2.0, is identified as the best available. Three types of deficiencies in AChecker are identified, unclear comments, redundancy of errors reporting and lack of automatic or semiautomatic repair. An interactive evaluation tool (IWAET) is developed based on AChecker. The usability of the new system is studied. The study involved a group of web developers with different levels of programming experience and no accessibility knowledge. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches were adopted in usability evaluation. The developed system is compared to AChecker. The results of the evaluation are presented which show clearly the superiority of the new system compared to the currently available systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ICTA.2015.7426915
2015 5th International Conference on Information & Communication Technology and Accessibility (ICTA)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Web Accessibility,Evaluation,Error Checking,Usability
Web Accessibility Initiative,Web design,Web usability,World Wide Web,Web page,Computer science,Web standards,Web modeling,Web testing,Web accessibility
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Islam Elkabani1475.43
Lama Hamandi201.01
Rached Zantout3187.67
Simar Mansi400.34