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WebAIM · 2024 · WebAIM
Annual large-scale automated accessibility evaluation of the top one million website home pages. The study consistently reveals widespread accessibility failures, with the majority of pages containing detectable WCAG conformance errors.
automated testing · web accessibility · large-scale analysis
Laura South, Caglar Yildirim, Amy Pavel, Michelle A. Borkin · 2024 · Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '24)
This paper investigates how photosensitivity warnings should be designed for digital visual media to effectively help people with photosensitive epilepsy (PSE) navigate content safely. Photosensitive seizures can be triggered by flashing lights, strobing effects, and rapid…
photosensitive epilepsy · seizure safety · video accessibility · content warnings · web accessibility
Ananya Gubbi Mohanbabu, Amy Pavel · 2024 · Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '24)
This paper addresses a fundamental limitation of current AI-generated image descriptions: they describe images in isolation without considering the surrounding webpage context. When blind and low-vision (BLV) users encounter images on the web, what they need to know about an…
alt text · image descriptions · blind and low vision · artificial intelligence · large language models
Ather Sharif, Joo Gyeong Kim, Jessie Zijia Xu, Jacob O. Wobbrock · 2024 · Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '24)
This paper investigates the challenges visualization creators face in making online data visualizations accessible to screen-reader users and develops interventions to address these challenges. Data visualizations (charts, graphs, maps, dashboards) are increasingly prevalent on…
data visualization · screen readers · web accessibility · sonification · blind and low vision
Shira Abramovich, Elizabeth Patitsas · 2024 · ASSETS '24: Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
This position paper uses duoethnography — a collaborative qualitative method where two researchers examine a shared topic through their contrasting personal experiences — to explore the practical labour of doing web accessibility work. The authors, Shira Abramovich (a…
web accessibility · professional practice · accessibility management · organizational accessibility · qualitative research
J. Bern Jordan, Victoria Van Hyning, Mason A. Jones, Rachael Bradley Montgomery, Elizabeth Bottner, Evan Tansil · 2024 · ASSETS '24: Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
This paper presents five user personas representing the diverse range of screen reader experiences, developed from observations across several studies with blind screen reader users. The authors challenge the common assumption in research and development that screen reader users…
screen readers · blind users · personas · user experience · information wayfinding
Tlamelo Makati, Garreth W. Tigwell, Kristen Shinohara · 2024 · Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2024)
This study provides the first substantial empirical evidence from blind and low-vision users about their experiences with web accessibility overlays—third-party JavaScript tools that claim to enhance website usability for people with disabilities by adding an additional…
web accessibility · accessibility overlays · screen readers · blind users · low vision
Peya Mowar · 2024 · Proceedings of the 21st International Web for All Conference (W4A)
This extended abstract from a CMU doctoral student examines whether AI code generation tools—specifically GitHub Copilot—help or hinder web accessibility when used by developers. The research is motivated by a persistent problem: despite decades of accessibility research, 96.3%…
AI code generation · web accessibility · developer practices · GitHub Copilot · automated testing
Adrian Wegener, Kathrin Fausel, Saskia Haug, Alexander Maedche · 2024 · Proceedings of the 21st International Web for All Conference (W4A)
This paper addresses a gap in web accessibility practice: while automated testing tools can catch structural violations, they cannot reliably assess the quality of alternative text, the usability of dynamic content, or many other issues that only human users can identify. The EU…
web accessibility · participatory design · visual impairments · feedback mechanisms · user-centered design
Adrian Wegener · 2024 · Proceedings of the 21st International Web for All Conference (W4A)
This doctoral consortium paper outlines a PhD research program aimed at addressing the significant underrepresentation of cognitive accessibility in web accessibility research. The author notes that while cognitive disabilities account for a 28% share of disabilities in Germany,…
cognitive accessibility · participatory design · attention · focus · ADHD
Wajdi Aljedaani, Abdulrahman Habib, Ahmed Aljohani, Marcelo Eler, Yunhe Feng · 2024 · Proceedings of the 21st International Web for All Conference (W4A)
This paper presents the first empirical evaluation of the accessibility of web code generated by ChatGPT (GPT-3.5), examining both how accessible the generated code is and how well the model can fix accessibility violations. The study involved 88 web developers who prompted…
web accessibility · large language models · ChatGPT · automated testing · WCAG
Filipe Rosa Martins, Letícia Seixas Pereira, Carlos Duarte · 2024 · Proceedings of the 21st International Web for All Conference (W4A)
This paper introduces QualState, a web crawling tool designed to solve a fundamental limitation of automated accessibility evaluation: the inability to test dynamic content in Single Page Applications (SPAs). SPAs like Facebook, Google Maps, and Gmail change their content in…
automated testing · web accessibility · single page applications · web crawling · accessibility evaluation
Reinaldo Ferraz · 2024 · Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024 (WWW)
This personal essay traces the parallel trajectories of Reinaldo Ferraz's career and the evolution of the web in Brazil, from his first encounter with computers in 1992 through his current role at NIC.br (the Brazilian Network Information Center). Born in 1977 in a São Paulo…
autoethnography · web accessibility · Brazil · web standards · digital accessibility history
Janice M. Clarke, Maryam Mehrnezhad, Ehsan Toreini · 2024 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
This study investigates the accessibility of cookie notices for users with visual impairments (VI), combining automated testing of 46 top UK websites with a user study of 100 participants who use assistive technology. The researchers employed multiple testing approaches: WAVE…
screen readers · visual impairments · privacy · web accessibility · cookie consent
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