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Web accessibility is essential for ensuring that all individuals, regardless of their physical or cognitive abilities, can access and effectively use the internet. This principle is fundamental as digital platforms increasingly become primary channels ...

In recent years, the internet has emerged as the primary information hub, encompassing various domains such as education, healthcare, government, and e-commerce. With a vast user base relying on websites for accessing essential information, ensuring web ...

Accessibility evaluation is essential to determine how accessible a Web system is so that any user can access its content regardless of their limitations. In this context, this work presents a literature survey focused on the accessibility of Web systems, ...

Securing employment and housing are key aspects of pursuing independent living. As these activities are increasingly practiced online, web accessibility of related services becomes critical for a successful major life transition. Support for this ...

In today's fast-evolving technology, the Internet has become an integral part of our everyday lives. However, for people with disabilities, accessing the online world and navigating through it can be a challenging task. Accessibility on the web ensures ...

Many web applications today use responsive design to adjust the view of web pages to match the screen size of end users. People with disabilities often use an alternative view either due to zooming on a desktop device to enlarge text or viewing within a ...

As automated web accessibility testing tools become enriched with new and improved tests, it can be impractical to leverage those advances. Each tool offers unique benefits, but effectively using multiple tools would require integrating them into a ...

This lab helps students gain experience and proficiency with alternative modalities for browsing the web (i.e., navigation using the keyboard and using screen readers). Students will learn how to perform a website accessibility evaluation using a ...

Automated web accessibility testing tools have been found complementary. The implication: To catch as many issues as possible, use multiple tools. Doing this efficiently entails integration costs. Is there a small set of tools that, together, make ...

Data visualization has become an increasingly important means of effective data communication and has played a vital role in broadcasting the progression of COVID-19. Accessible data representations, however, have lagged behind, leaving areas of ...

Alternative (alt) text is essential for people with visual impairments to acquire information about image content through a screen reader. However, collecting images and creating alt text requires time and effort. To deal with this problem, ...

Nowadays, web pages and the web make it possible to integrate a huge diversity of resources and services, providing users with new experiences of interaction and participation in different domains. For most users, the use of websites does not entail ...

This paper presents a comparative analysis of automated web accessibility assessment tools and guidelines for monitoring of public websites and reporting according to the Directive (EU) 2016/2102. A review of previous research and our own comparative ...

All digital resources, namely Digital Learning Resources (DLR), should guarantee accessibility and inclusiveness to all people. This study analyses the accessibility of Audiovisual DLR, specifically video resources, fixed images, and podcasts. Three ...

Leveraging JavaScript (JS) for User Interface (UI) interactivity has been the norm on the web for many years. Yet, using JS increases bandwidth and battery consumption as scripts need to be downloaded and processed by the browser. Plus, client-side JS ...

In this paper, the ADKAR change management model is used in a study aiming at understanding the type of intervention required to achieve a higher degree of accessibility in web portals and resources of higher education institutions (HEIs). We present ...

Enforcing website accessibility and usability in a large organization poses its challenges. Implementing web accessibility at scale requires distributing responsibilities and assigning accountability. Enterprise accessibility suites are effective tools, ...

This research looks at the application of Machine Learning to Web Accessibility. It considers how Machine Learning (ML) can be used to help make the processes of Web Navigation more accessible in line with Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) 2.4 ...

The social model of disability, accessibility legislation, and the digital transformation spurred by COVID-19 expose a lack of accessibility capacity in the digital workforce, indicating persistent gaps in academic and professional education. This paper ...

Why "Out with accessibility"? The concept of digital accessibility is now not only more mainstream an issue - it is, in fact, an entirely mainstream issue.