Literature Reviews

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

• A3: A Coding Guideline for HCI+Autism Research Using Video Annotation

  Joshua Hailpern, Karrie Karahalios, James Halle, Laura DeThorne, Mary-Kelsey Coletto (2008) — Proceedings of the 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '08)

  This paper presents A3 (Annotation for ASD Analysis), a systematic coding guideline developed through cross-disciplinary collaboration between computer scientists, special educators, and speech and hearing scientists at the University of Illinois. Th…

  • autism
  • video annotation
  • research methodology
  • inter-rater reliability
  • computerized feedback
  • vocal development
  • low-functioning autism
  • HCI
  • assistive technology

• Validity and Reliability of Web Accessibility Guidelines

  Giorgio Brajnik (2009) — Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '09)

  This paper presents an experiment measuring the validity and reliability of WCAG 1.0 and WCAG 2.0 checkpoints when applied by human evaluators. The study recruited 35 young web developers with some accessibility knowledge from a university course and…

  • accessibility evaluation
  • WCAG
  • conformance testing
  • inter-rater reliability
  • web accessibility
  • guidelines

• On the Testability of WCAG 2.0 for Beginners

  Fernando Alonso, José Luis Fuertes, Ángel Lucas González, Loïc Martínez (2010) — Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper investigates whether WCAG 2.0 success criteria are truly "reliably human testable" — one of the standard's key design goals — when the evaluators are beginners rather than experts. The W3C defines reliably human testable as meaning that at…

  • WCAG evaluation
  • accessibility education
  • testability
  • inter-rater reliability
  • manual testing
  • accessibility training