Literature Reviews

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

• Web Composition with WCAG in Mind

  Vicente Luque Centeno, Carlos Delgado Kloos, Martin Gaedke, Martin Nussbaumer (2005) — Proceedings of the 2005 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper argues that accessibility should be built into the web authoring process rather than treated as a post-design repair activity. The authors address the specific challenge of web composition — the common practice of building web pages by dyn…

  • web composition
  • authoring tools
  • WCAG compliance
  • accessibility by design
  • component-based development
  • HTML validation
  • automated accessibility

• Transforming Web Pages to Become Standard-Compliant through Reverse Engineering

  Benfeng Chen, Vincent Y. Shen (2006) — Proceedings of the 2006 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper addresses the problem of transforming legacy, non-standards-compliant web pages into valid HTML with proper separation of content and presentation — a fundamental requirement for web accessibility. In 2006, over 95% of web pages failed W3C…

  • web standards
  • HTML validation
  • CSS
  • automated remediation
  • layout tables
  • reverse engineering
  • separation of concerns