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• Certification or Conformance: Making a Successful Commitment to WCAG 2.0

  Suzette Keith, Nikolaos Floratos, Gill Whitney · 2012 · Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  Commissioned by ANEC (the European consumer voice in standardisation), this study examined whether voluntary self-declaration or third-party certification of web accessibility conformance translates into actual compliance with WCAG 2.0. The researchers selected 100 websites from…

  WCAG compliance · accessibility evaluation · certification · conformance testing · e-government

• Guidelines, Icons and Marketable Skills: An Accessibility Evaluation of 100 Web Development Company Homepages

  Teresa D. Gilbertson, Colin H. C. Machin · 2012 · Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This study examined whether web development companies that market accessibility as a skill actually practice what they preach, by evaluating the homepages of 100 UK web development companies selected from Google searches across four geographic regions. Each homepage was tested…

  web accessibility · WCAG compliance · developer awareness · conformance testing · accessibility evaluation

• Is Accessibility Conformance an Elusive Property? A Study of Validity and Reliability of WCAG 2.0

  Giorgio Brajnik, Yeliz Yesilada, Simon Harper · 2012 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This landmark study investigates whether WCAG 2.0's definition of "Reliably Human Testable"—that at least 80% of knowledgeable evaluators would agree on an audit conclusion—is actually achievable in practice. The researchers recruited 25 experienced accessibility evaluators…

  WCAG · conformance testing · accessibility evaluation · evaluator effect · reliability

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