Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Comparative Analysis of Web Accessibility Standards and Regulations

  Shantanu D. Ladkat (2019) — Proceedings of the 16th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This doctoral consortium paper proposes a comparative analysis of web accessibility standards and regulations across different regions and organizations. The author identifies a practical problem facing the accessibility industry: there is no systema…

  • accessibility standards
  • WCAG
  • Section 508
  • accessibility compliance
  • accessibility policy
  • project management
  • accessibility remediation

• Towards Optimised Population Sourcing for Web Accessibility Evaluation

  Alexander Hambley (2023) — Proceedings of the 20th International Web for All Conference (W4A '23)

  This doctoral consortium extended abstract presents a PhD project proposing a novel framework and prototypical tool for optimising web accessibility evaluation through statistically representative page sampling. The work is the single-author companio…

  • automated accessibility testing
  • web accessibility
  • accessibility evaluation
  • web crawling
  • machine learning
  • WCAG compliance
  • accessibility standards
  • large-scale analysis

• OPTIMAL-EM: Optimised Population Sourcing for Web Accessibility Evaluation

  Alexander Hambley, Yeliz Yesilada, Markel Vigo, Simon Harper (2023) — Proceedings of the 20th International Web for All Conference (W4A '23)

  This extended abstract presents OPTIMAL-EM, a prototypical tool and framework designed to optimise the web accessibility evaluation process by systematically selecting representative pages from a website for auditing. Currently, accessibility evaluat…

  • automated accessibility testing
  • web accessibility
  • accessibility evaluation
  • web crawling
  • machine learning
  • WCAG compliance
  • accessibility standards
  • large-scale analysis

• User Capability in an Adaptive World

  Robert Dodd, Steve Green, Elaine Pearson (2009) — MSIADU '09: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Media Studies and Implementations that Help Improving Access to Disabled Users

  This paper presents a fundamental rethinking of how user profiles should be constructed for adaptive and accessible computing. Published at MSIADU '09 (co-located with ACM Multimedia), it critiques the dominant Access For All standard (ISO/IEC 24751)…

  • user profiling
  • capability modeling
  • adaptive interfaces
  • user modeling
  • accessibility standards