Literature Reviews

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

• Web not for all: a large scale study of web accessibility

  Rui Lopes, Daniel Gomes, Luís Carriço (2010) — Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper presents the first large-scale automated accessibility evaluation of nearly 30 million web pages from the Portuguese Web Archive. The researchers implemented 39 WCAG 1.0 checkpoints (priorities 1 and 2) based on the Unified Web Evaluation …

  • automated testing
  • accessibility evaluation
  • WCAG compliance
  • web science
  • accessibility metrics
  • large-scale study

• The Impact of Accessibility Assessment in Macro Scale Universal Usability Studies of the Web

  Rui Lopes, Luís Carriço (2008) — Proceedings of the 2008 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A 2008)

  This paper introduces Web Interaction Environments (WIEs), a modelling framework for studying universal usability of the web at large scale. The authors argue that existing approaches to accessibility evaluation treat audiences as homogeneous groups,…

  • universal usability
  • audience modelling
  • web accessibility
  • WCAG evaluation
  • Wikipedia
  • large-scale study
  • ontology
  • accessibility metrics