Literature Reviews

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

• Real-Time Accessibility Dashboards for Higher Education

  Beatriz Patatas, Carlos Duarte, Leticia Seixas Pereira (2026) — Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26)

  Patatas, Duarte, and Seixas Pereira (University of Lisbon and University of Porto) present an open-source Moodle plugin that integrates real-time PDF accessibility evaluation into the content-upload workflow and aggregates results into an institution…

  • higher education accessibility
  • learning management system
  • Moodle
  • PDF accessibility
  • accessibility monitoring
  • accessibility dashboard
  • inclusive education
  • WCAG
  • remediation
  • organisational accessibility

• Metrics for accessibility on the Vamolà project

  Silvia Mirri, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Marco Roccetti, Paola Salomoni (2009) — Proceedings of the 2009 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibililty (W4A)

  This paper describes the Vamolà project (Italian acronym for "accessibility validator and monitor"), a collaboration between the University of Bologna and the Emilia Romagna Region that integrates an accessibility validator with a monitoring system d…

  • accessibility metrics
  • accessibility monitoring
  • automated testing
  • Stanca Act
  • accessibility evaluation
  • Italian accessibility law
  • WAB score

• AMAri: A Reporting Interface for Accessibility Evaluations

  Silvia Mirri, Matteo Casadei, Ludovico A. Muratori, Matteo Battistelli, Paola Salomoni (2012) — Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This short paper presents AMAri (Accessibility Monitoring Application Reporting Interface), an open-source web-based tool designed to make large-scale accessibility evaluation data understandable and actionable for distributed web authoring and edito…

  • accessibility monitoring
  • accessibility evaluation
  • data visualization
  • accessibility tools
  • reporting
  • accessibility dashboards

• A platform to check website compliance with web accessibility standards

  Reinaldo Ferraz, Ana Duarte, João Bárbara, Adriano C.M. Pereira, Wagner Meira (2023) — Proceedings of the 20th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This short paper presents the TIC Web Acessibilidade platform, a comprehensive system for evaluating and monitoring the accessibility of Brazilian government websites at scale. Developed by NIC.br (the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee's executiv…

  • automated testing
  • web accessibility
  • government accessibility
  • accessibility monitoring
  • web crawler
  • compliance
  • Global South accessibility