Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
95 results found tagged accessibility evaluation.
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Haptic comparison of size (relative magnitude) in blind and sighted people
Douglas and Willson's Assets '07 paper is a controlled psychophysical study of how blind and sighted users compare relative magnitude using a PHANToM force-feedback device — the workhorse haptic input-output device of the era. The motivating problem …
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Feedback-based evaluation tool for web accessibility
This short Assets '07 demonstration paper from NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories proposes a feedback-driven approach to improving automated web-accessibility evaluation tools. The authors frame the familiar problem that automated checkers such as Bobb…
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Task Analysis for Sonification Applications Usability Evaluation
This poster paper from University Malaysia Sabah and the University of York proposes a task analysis framework for evaluating the usability of sonification applications — software that transforms data into sound representations. The author argues tha…
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Transforming Flash to XML for Accessibility Evaluations
This paper from IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory proposes a method for transforming Flash content into XML structures to enable automated accessibility evaluation. At the time of publication, Flash was installed on over 95% of personal computers and was…
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Functional Web Accessibility Techniques and Tools from the University of Illinois
This paper presents two complementary tools developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for helping web developers create functionally accessible websites: the CITES/DRES Functional Web Accessibility Best Practices and associated eval…
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Accessibility Evaluation based on Machine Learning Technique
This paper from IBM Tokyo Research Lab proposes using machine learning to evaluate the accessibility of presentation documents, addressing a gap where traditional rule-based checking tools are insufficient. The authors argue that presentation documen…
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Research-Derived Web Design Guidelines for Older People
This paper develops and validates a set of research-derived, ageing-centred web design guidelines through a rigorous multi-stage process. The authors began with an extensive literature review of HCI and ageing research, producing an initial set of 52…
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Emerging Issues, Solutions & Challenges from the Top 20 Issues Affecting Web Application Accessibility
This poster paper presents the results of a second in-depth analysis of hundreds of accessibility issues documented across real web application projects at the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA), compared with findings from a prior study of ov…
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Programmer-Focused Website Accessibility Evaluations
This paper argues that accessibility evaluation and reporting processes have historically focused on the needs of end-users with disabilities while overlooking the actual audience for evaluation reports: the programmers who must implement the fixes. …
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Accessibility of Internet Websites through Time
This paper presents a longitudinal analysis of web accessibility from 1997 to 2002 using archived snapshots from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. The researchers evaluated 240 archived instances of random websites (40 per year from the Alexa t…