Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
30 results found tagged dynamic content.
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Audio Access to Calendars
This paper addresses a specific but widespread accessibility problem: pop-up calendar date pickers on the web are effectively unusable by people with visual impairments. These JavaScript widgets dynamically insert tabular calendar content into the pa…
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A Macroscopic Web Accessibility Evaluation at Different Processing Phases
This paper investigates a fundamental question about automated accessibility evaluation: does it matter whether you evaluate a web page as it arrives from the server (before browser processing) or as the user actually experiences it (after browser pr…
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Using Acceptance Tests to Validate Accessibility Requirements in RIA
This paper addresses a significant gap in automated accessibility testing: the inability of traditional static HTML evaluation tools to assess Rich Internet Applications (RIA) that use Ajax, JavaScript, and dynamically generated DOM content. The auth…
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WAI-ARIA live regions: eBuddy IM as a case example
This paper presents a practical case study of implementing WAI-ARIA live regions in eBuddy, a web-based instant messaging application with over 100 million users that aggregated popular IM networks into a single browser client. The paper addresses th…
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Using galvanic skin response measures to identify areas of frustration for older web 2.0 users
This paper investigates how older web users experience stress and frustration when interacting with Web 2.0 dynamic content, using galvanic skin response (GSR) measurements combined with eye-tracking data. GSR is a physiological indicator that measur…
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Three web accessibility evaluation perspectives for RIA
This paper presents a large-scale comparative study of web accessibility evaluation across three distinct perspectives that reflect how Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) are actually experienced by users. The three evaluation perspectives are: E1, ev…
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Towards Web Accessibility Repair
This doctoral consortium paper presents early-stage research on automatically evaluating and repairing accessibility problems in Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). The author identifies a critical gap: as the web evolves from static pages to complex,…
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Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web: Hindrance or Opportunity? W4A -- International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility 2007
This is the conference report for the 4th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A) 2007, held at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Canada, co-located with the World Wide Web (WWW) conference. The report summariz…
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Look Ma, No ARIA: Generic Accessible Interfaces for Web Widgets
This paper proposes an alternative approach to web widget accessibility that bypasses ARIA entirely. Rather than relying on web developers to correctly implement ARIA markup — which is often missing, incorrect, or inconsistent — the system automatica…
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QualState: Finding Website States for Accessibility Evaluation
This paper introduces QualState, a web crawling tool designed to solve a fundamental limitation of automated accessibility evaluation: the inability to test dynamic content in Single Page Applications (SPAs). SPAs like Facebook, Google Maps, and Gmai…