Access Over Deception: Fighting Deceptive Patterns through Accessibility
Tobias Pellkvist, Katie Seaborn, Miu Kojima · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)
This exploratory paper asks whether the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and related European legislation — the European Accessibility Act (EAA), the Digital Services Act (DSA), and the upcoming Digital Fairness Act (DFA) — can be repurposed as a tool against…
dark patterns · deceptive design · manipulative interfaces · heuristic evaluation · web accessibility