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  • Are Users the Gold Standard for Accessibility Evaluation?

    Amaia Aizpurua, Myriam Arrue, Simon Harper, Markel Vigo · 2014 · Proceedings of the 11th Web for All Conference (W4A)

    This paper critically examines whether user testing with blind users is a reliable "gold standard" for web accessibility evaluation. Drawing on an exploratory study with 11 legally blind participants (10 JAWS users, 1 VoiceOver user, ages 21-64) who navigated four restaurant…

    user testing · accessibility evaluation · blind users · screen readers · research methodology

  • Buildings and Users with Visual Impairment: Uncovering Factors for Accessibility Using BIT-Kit

    Lesley J. McIntyre, Vicki L. Hanson · 2014 · ASSETS '14: Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

    This paper introduces BIT-Kit (Building Interactions Tool-kit), a mixed-method framework for gathering evidence about how buildings impact the accessibility of users with visual impairments. The framework combines three methods: semi-structured interviews about past building…

    visual impairment · wayfinding · built environment · architecture · accessibility evaluation

  • Evaluating the Accessibility of Crowdsourcing Tasks on Amazon's Mechanical Turk

    Rocío Calvo, Shaun K. Kane, Amy Hurst · 2014 · Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS)

    This paper presents a heuristic accessibility evaluation of Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), a crowdsourcing platform where workers complete short tasks (Human Intelligence Tasks, or HITs) for small payments. The authors argue that crowd work platforms offer a potentially…

    crowdsourcing · web accessibility · accessibility evaluation · employment · WCAG

  • Web Accessibility Evaluation with the Crowd: Using Glance to Rapidly Code User Testing Video

    Mitchell Gordon · 2014 · Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS)

    This paper proposes using Glance, a crowd-powered video coding tool, to accelerate the analysis of user accessibility testing videos. User testing with people with disabilities is a recommended component of web accessibility evaluation (as outlined in the W3C Website…

    crowdsourcing · accessibility evaluation · usability testing · video coding · web accessibility

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