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  • Optimising the Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology

    Alexander Hambley, Yeliz Yesilada, Markel Vigo, Simon Harper · 2022 · Proceedings of the 19th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

    This paper critically examines the Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM), the W3C's standard five-step process for evaluating website conformance to WCAG. The authors identify several methodological weaknesses in WCAG-EM and propose a parallel…

    accessibility evaluation · WCAG-EM · sampling methodology · automated testing · web crawling

  • On the Identification of Accessibility Bug Reports in Open Source Systems

    Wajdi Aljedaani, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Stephanie Ludi, Ali Ouni, Ilyes Jenhani · 2022 · Proceedings of the 19th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

    This paper addresses a significant gap in software engineering research: the automated identification of accessibility-related bug reports in open-source projects. While bug tracking systems like Bugzilla and Monorail accumulate vast numbers of reports, manually sifting through…

    accessibility bug reports · machine learning · open source · bug classification · automated testing

  • 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

  • Accessibility Assessment of Violations on the Stack Overflow Platform

    Ingrid M. Miranda da Silva, Luciano Arruda Teran, Marcelle Pereira Mota · 2022 · Proceedings of the 21st Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems (IHC)

    This study investigates whether code snippets shared on Stack Overflow — one of the world's most popular developer Q&A platforms with over 120 million monthly visitors — follow web accessibility guidelines. The researchers built a tool called A11y RepoMining that extends the…

    web accessibility · repository mining · software development · code quality · WCAG compliance

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