Literature Reviews

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

• An Optimal Sampling Method for Web Accessibility Quantitative Metric

  Mengni Zhang, Can Wang, Jiajun Bu, Zhi Yu, Yi Lu, Ruijie Zhang, Chun Chen (2015) — Proceedings of the 12th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2015)

  This short paper proposes OPS-WAQM, an optimal page sampling method specifically designed for use with the Web Accessibility Quantitative Metric (WAQM) when evaluating large websites. The core problem is that evaluating every page of a large website …

  • accessibility evaluation
  • sampling methods
  • accessibility metrics
  • WAQM
  • large-scale evaluation
  • government websites
  • quantitative metrics
  • statistical methods

• 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