The Transparency of Automatic Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools: Design Criteria, State of the Art, and User Perception
Marco Manca, Vanessa Palumbo, Fabio Paternò, Carmen Santoro · 2023 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
This paper investigates a critical but often overlooked problem in web accessibility practice: the lack of transparency in automated accessibility evaluation tools. While these tools are widely used to identify WCAG violations, users frequently struggle to understand why…
automated testing · accessibility evaluation tools · WAVE · axe · Lighthouse