Literature Reviews

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

3 results found tagged semantic analysis.

Semantic Knowledge in Word Completion

Jianhua Li, Graeme Hirst (2005) — Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

This paper proposes an integrated word-completion system that combines semantic knowledge with traditional n-gram statistical models to produce more contextually appropriate predictions for users with linguistic or physical disabilities. Standard wor…
Semantic Content Analysis Supporting Web Accessibility Evaluation

Carlos Duarte, Inês Matos, Luís Carriço (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

This paper addresses a fundamental limitation of automated web accessibility evaluation tools: their inability to assess whether text alternatives actually describe the content they refer to. While tools can detect the presence of an alt attribute on…
Combining Semantic Tools for Automatic Evaluation of Alternative Texts

Carlos Duarte, Carlos M. Duarte, Luís Carriço (2019) — Proceedings of the 16th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

This paper presents SCREW v2, an updated algorithm for automatically assessing the quality of alternative texts for images on web pages from an accessibility perspective. The work is motivated by the EU Directive 2016/2102, which requires monitoring …