Checking Web Accessibility with the Content Accessibility Checker (CAC)

Klein, Eduard; Bolfing, Anton; Riesch, Markus

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8_16

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“…There are several tools and techniques in the literature to evaluate websites' accessibility against WCAG guidelines [5,13,24]. Takata et al [24] proposed a tool to verify the accessibility and syntactic correctness of a website.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The latest revised WCAG guidelines are WCAG 2.2 1 proposed in the year 2021. Several tools such as Achecker [5] and CAC [13] have been developed to evaluate websites against different versions of guidelines such as WCAG 1.0 2 , WCAG 2.0 3 guidelines, Stanca Act 4 (Italian accessibility guidelines), and so on. Most of the existing tools focus on highlighting errors based on WCAG 2.0 guidelines, while fewer tools exist for evaluating websites based on WCAG 2.1 guidelines [13], and no tools exist to evaluate websites based on WCAG 2.2 guidelines.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Several tools such as Achecker [5] and CAC [13] have been developed to evaluate websites against different versions of guidelines such as WCAG 1.0 2 , WCAG 2.0 3 guidelines, Stanca Act 4 (Italian accessibility guidelines), and so on. Most of the existing tools focus on highlighting errors based on WCAG 2.0 guidelines, while fewer tools exist for evaluating websites based on WCAG 2.1 guidelines [13], and no tools exist to evaluate websites based on WCAG 2.2 guidelines. World wide web consortium (W3C) lists 132 web accessibility evaluation tools for WCAG 2.0, 67 evaluation tools for WCAG 2.1, while none are listed for WCAG 2.2.…”

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confidence: 99%

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WAccess -- A Web Accessibility Tool based on WCAG 2.2, 2.1 and 2.0 Guidelines

Boyalakuntla,

Venigalla,

Chimalakonda

2021

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The vision of providing access to all web content equally for all users makes web accessibility a fundamental goal of today's internet.Web accessibility is the practice of removing barriers from websites that could hinder functionality for users with various disabilities.Web accessibility is measured against the accessibility guidelines such as WCAG, GIGW and so on. WCAG 2.2 is the latest set of guidelines for web accessibility that helps in making websites accessible. The web accessibility tools available in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), only conform up to WCAG 2.1 guidelines. No tools exist for the latest set of guidelines. Despite the availability of several tools to check conformity of websites with WCAG 2.1 guidelines, there is scarcity of tools that are both open source and scalable. To support automated accessibility evaluation of numerous websites against WCAG 2.2 and 2.1, we present here a tool, WAccess. WAccess highlights violations of 9 guidelines from WCAG 2.1 and 7 guidelines from WCAG 2.2 of a specific web page on the web console and suggests the fix for violations while specifying violating code snippet simultaneously. We evaluated WAccess against 2246 government websites of India, and observed a total of about 2 million violations.CCS Concepts: • Information systems → World Wide Web; Web mining; • Human-centered computing → Accessibility systems and tools.

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WAccess -- A Web Accessibility Tool based on WCAG 2.2, 2.1 and 2.0 Guidelines

Boyalakuntla,

Venigalla,

Chimalakonda

2021

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“…The process of checking a document's accessibility can be done manually or by using the built-in feature within the Office program or separate software. Studies in the area of humancomputer have examined web accessibility checker tools [25,37], but further research needs to be done to examine the accessibility checker tools for Office and PDF documents to determine whether these tools provide an effective avenue for supporting collaborative work in mixed-ability workplaces.…”

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The challenges in adopting assistive technologies in the workplace for people with visual impairments

Wahidin

Waycott

Baker

2018

Proceedings of the 30th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction

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There are many barriers to employment for people with visual impairments. Assistive technologies (ATs), such as computer screen readers and enlarging software, are commonly used to help overcome employment barriers and enable people with visual impairments to contribute to, and participate in, the workforce. However, recent research suggests it can be difficult for people with visual impairments to effectively adopt and implement ATs in the workplace. This paper reports insights from interviews with five professional workers with visual impairments. The interviews revealed that each participant had adopted different configurations of ATs, which they used in various ways to support their work. In addition, all participants followed a complex process to successfully select, learn, and integrate these tools into their work activities. During this process, they faced challenges, such as the need to educate colleagues to make shared documents more accessible. We conclude that despite progress in the development and use of ATs, there remains a need for future work that addresses these accessibility issues to support collaborative work between people with visual impairments and their sighted colleagues.

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“…These are used as places where users share experiences, find support and advice for their issues. Hence the need for both Web developers and health professionals to not only understand the impact the health related content might have on the life of users, but also to acknowledge the need for the referred content to be usable and accessible to all the users, including those with some sort of disability (Klein, Bolfing, & Riesch, 2014).…”

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A full scope web accessibility evaluation procedure proposal based on Iberian eHealth accessibility compliance

Martins

Gonalves

Branco

2017

Computers in Human Behavior

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Internet is becoming one of the most adopted technologies of all times and one of its particular uses concerns the public health issues. The search for health related information and the exchange of experiences and opinions on symptoms and treatments is one of the main activities associated with eHealth websites, hence the need for these websites to be accessible to everybody, including those with some sort of disability. Nevertheless, when assessing the level of the WCAG 2.0 compliance of Iberian eHealth websites, the results achieved during a two stage, one year apart, evaluation indicated that these websites were definitely not accessible. By adding this finding to other similar results achieved by means of similar researches we believe that a new full scope Web accessibility and usability evaluation procedure was needed and is now presented. The referred proposal aims at creating a basis for both organisations and Web developers to understand how to perform an adequate assessment of their websites.

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Checking Web Accessibility with the Content Accessibility Checker (CAC)

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WAccess -- A Web Accessibility Tool based on WCAG 2.2, 2.1 and 2.0 Guidelines

WAccess -- A Web Accessibility Tool based on WCAG 2.2, 2.1 and 2.0 Guidelines

The challenges in adopting assistive technologies in the workplace for people with visual impairments

A full scope web accessibility evaluation procedure proposal based on Iberian eHealth accessibility compliance

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