Literature Reviews

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

• Automatic Identification of Widgets and their Subcomponents Based on a Classification Pipeline for DOM Mutation Records

  Eduardo Henrique Rizo, Renata Pontin de Mattos Fortes, Humberto Lidio Antonelli, Willian Massami Watanabe (2019) — Proceedings of the 16th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper presents a machine learning pipeline for automatically classifying web widgets (specifically dropdown menus) and their subcomponents by analyzing DOM mutation records — the dynamic changes that occur in a web page's HTML structure when use…

  • WAI-ARIA
  • machine learning
  • web accessibility
  • automated testing
  • widgets
  • DOM
  • rich internet applications
  • screen reader
  • accessibility evaluation
  • dropdown menu

• Drop-Down Menu Widget Identification Using HTML Structure Changes Classification

  Humberto Lidio Antonelli, Rodrigo Augusto Igawa, Renata Pontin De Mattos Fortes, Eduardo Henrique Rizo, Willian Massami Watanabe (2018) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper addresses a critical gap in web accessibility: the widespread failure of interactive widgets in rich internet applications (RIAs) to implement WAI-ARIA markup, rendering them inaccessible to screen reader users and other assistive technolo…

  • ARIA
  • web accessibility
  • machine learning
  • widgets
  • automated testing
  • rich internet applications
  • DOM