Literature Reviews

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

• Using Ontologies as a Foundation for Web Accessibility Tools

  Jens Pelzetter (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

  This extended abstract proposes using formal ontologies — machine-readable knowledge representations using languages like OWL (Web Ontology Language) — as the foundation for web accessibility tools, addressing two major problems: supporting developer…

  • web accessibility
  • ontologies
  • WCAG
  • knowledge representation
  • automated testing
  • semantic web
  • OWL
  • accessibility evaluation
  • developer tools

• Accessibility Metatesting: Comparing Nine Testing Tools

  Jonathan Robert Pool (2023) — Proceedings of the 20th International Web for All Conference (W4A '23)

  This short paper presents a systematic empirical comparison of nine automated web accessibility testing tools that are amenable to integration into multi-tool testing regimes (free or nearly free, controllable via APIs or NPM packages, and comprehens…

  • automated accessibility testing
  • web accessibility
  • accessibility testing
  • accessibility evaluation
  • WCAG compliance
  • developer tools
  • accessibility violations
  • tools

• Understanding and Reducing the Challenges Faced by Creators of Accessible Online Data Visualizations

  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) a…

  • data visualization
  • screen readers
  • web accessibility
  • sonification
  • blind and low vision
  • developer tools
  • ARIA