Literature Reviews

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

• A Macroscopic Web Accessibility Evaluation at Different Processing Phases

  Nádia Fernandes, Luís Carriço (2012) — Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  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…

  • automated testing
  • large-scale evaluation
  • web accessibility
  • browser processing
  • dynamic content
  • accessibility metrics
  • WCAG evaluation

• Three web accessibility evaluation perspectives for RIA

  Nádia Fernandes, Ana Sofia Batista, Daniel Costa, Carlos Duarte, Luís Carriço (2013) — Proceedings of the 10th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  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…

  • automated evaluation
  • Rich Internet Applications
  • dynamic content
  • AJAX
  • DOM
  • web accessibility evaluation
  • browser processing