Literature Reviews

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

• DOM block clustering for enhanced sampling and evaluation

  Simon Harper, Anwar Ahmad Moon, Markel Vigo, Giorgio Brajnik, Yeliz Yesilada (2015) — Proceedings of the 12th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper addresses a fundamental challenge in web accessibility evaluation: large websites with thousands or tens of thousands of pages are practically impossible to fully evaluate, yet current sampling methods (random, best-guess, or convenience s…

  • accessibility evaluation
  • automated testing
  • web crawling
  • sampling methodology
  • DOM analysis
  • website demographics
  • WCAG compliance
  • clustering

• Optimising the Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology

  Alexander Hambley, Yeliz Yesilada, Markel Vigo, Simon Harper (2022) — Proceedings of the 19th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper critically examines the Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM), the W3C's standard five-step process for evaluating website conformance to WCAG. The authors identify several methodological weaknesses in WCAG-EM …

  • accessibility evaluation
  • WCAG-EM
  • sampling methodology
  • automated testing
  • web crawling
  • conformance evaluation
  • accessibility audit
  • statistical methods