Literature Reviews

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

• The Transparency of Automatic Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools: Design Criteria, State of the Art, and User Perception

  Marco Manca, Vanessa Palumbo, Fabio Paternò, Carmen Santoro (2023) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper investigates a critical but often overlooked problem in web accessibility practice: the lack of transparency in automated accessibility evaluation tools. While these tools are widely used to identify WCAG violations, users frequently strug…

  • automated testing
  • accessibility evaluation tools
  • WAVE
  • axe
  • Lighthouse
  • MAUVE++
  • transparency
  • usability
  • WCAG compliance