Literature Reviews

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

• Benchmarking Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools: Measuring the Harm of Sole Reliance on Automated Tests

  Markel Vigo, Justin Brown, Vivienne Conway (2013) — Proceedings of the 10th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper provides rigorous empirical evidence on the limitations of automated web accessibility evaluation tools by benchmarking six state-of-the-art tools — AChecker, SortSite, Total Validator, TAW, Deque, and AMP — against expert manual evaluatio…

  • automated testing
  • accessibility evaluation
  • WCAG compliance
  • evaluation tools
  • benchmarking
  • false positives
  • conformance testing

• Comparing Accessibility Evaluation Plug-ins

  Tânia Frazão, Carlos Duarte (2020) — Proceedings of the 17th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper from the University of Lisbon systematically compares eight free Chrome browser extensions for automated accessibility evaluation: Microsoft Accessibility Insights, ACCESS Assistant Community, ARC Toolkit, aXe Chrome Plugin, Lighthouse, Te…

  • automated testing
  • accessibility testing
  • WCAG
  • web accessibility
  • evaluation tools
  • browser extensions