scispace - formally typeset
Search or ask a question
Topic

Web accessibility

About: Web accessibility is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2565 publications have been published within this topic receiving 34438 citations. The topic is also known as: a11y & web a11y.


Papers
More filters
Proceedings ArticleDOI
21 Apr 2008
TL;DR: The proposed platform framework is based upon front-end and back-end interfaces, which incorporate user and administrator functions that implement accessibility policies, which should enable a wider participation from the community in the accessibility evaluation process, and allow for a wider dissertation of community experience and knowledge.
Abstract: There are limitations when it comes to promoting increased Internet access to the wider population in Taiwan, mainly because efforts are centered on government-led initiatives that are guided by a Web Accessibility policy. These include the establishment of a call center to handle both technical and administrative issues; creation of a validation toolset, known as 'Freego', to detect violation of Web Accessibility guidelines; the provision of services to support Accessibility Conformances; evaluation reports of websites conducted via automated and human reviews; and progress reports that monitor compliance with Web Accessibility guidelines. The Research, Development & Evaluation Commission (RDEC) has been established as an agency of the Executive Yuan of Taiwan, and is responsible for the administration of a Web Accessibility policy.An Accessibility Evaluation platform, based on ideas taken from Web 2.0, is therefore proposed in this paper in order to leverage these public sector initiatives, as well as to allow for contributions from the wider, interested community. This platform borrows from concepts such as social learning theory (SLS) and social networking service (SNS), which demonstrate that increased social interaction and networking enables people to learn more and to utilize Internet resources more often and productively. Increased Internet accessibility overcomes the challenges of longdistance communication and allows for the maintenance of new and existing relationships, which has societal, as well as individual, benefits. The proposed platform framework is based upon front-end and back-end interfaces, which incorporate user and administrator functions that implement accessibility policies. This should enable a wider participation from the community in the accessibility evaluation process, and allow for a wider dissertation of community experience and knowledge.
01 Nov 2008
TL;DR: The 2nd CSIR Biennial Conference on Real and relevant Science real and relevant as mentioned in this paper was held at the CSIR International Convention Centre Pretoria, 17&18 November 2008.
Abstract: Science real and relevant: 2nd CSIR Biennial Conference CSIR International Convention Centre Pretoria, 17&18 November 2008
DOI
25 Jun 2019
TL;DR: What is the current web accessibility degree of compliance, in the case of hearing disability users, by the websites owned by the main generalist television channels operating in Spanish market?
Abstract: There are 466 million people all around the world with some kind of hearing disability, one million of them living in Spain. On the other hand, communication media websites face a legislation that guarantees the whole citizenship web accessibility. This article analyzes what is the current web accessibility degree of compliance, in the case of hearing disability users, by the websites owned by the main generalist television channels operating in Spanish market.
Proceedings ArticleDOI
21 Jun 2017
TL;DR: An analysis of the web accessibility of 101 websites of scientific journals with open access in Latin America shows that most of the top page of the websites analyzed do not meet web accessibility standards.
Abstract: Open access scientific journals allow scientific information to be published on the Web. Open access is immediate access, without registration, subscription or payment requirements to online digital material free of most of the restrictions imposed by traditional copyright. When talking about open access, it is often indicated that it is "barrier-free" access. However, the access barriers faced by people with disabilities often persist. Open access is access free of technical, legal or financial restrictions. Websites that provide open access must meet web accessibility standards in order to minimize the barriers that impede access to information for people with disabilities. However, web developers often do not have the knowledge to meet web accessibility standards. Several evaluation tools have been developed to verify that a website complies with web accessibility standards. In this article we present the results of an analysis of the web accessibility of 101 websites of scientific journals with open access in Latin America. EXaminator has been used as an automatic evaluation tool to detect the most important problems of web accessibility. The results show that most of the top page of the websites analyzed do not meet web accessibility standards. Finally, based on the results obtained, some recommendations are offered to help improve the accessibility of this type of websites.

Network Information
Related Topics (5)
Mobile device
58.6K papers, 942.8K citations
79% related
User interface
85.4K papers, 1.7M citations
78% related
Web page
50.3K papers, 975.1K citations
76% related
The Internet
213.2K papers, 3.8M citations
76% related
Mobile computing
51.3K papers, 1M citations
74% related
Performance
Metrics
No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202366
2022141
202195
2020127
2019127
2018122