Disabled people and the Web: User-based measurement of accessibility

AP Freire - 2012 - etheses.whiterose.ac.uk
Being able to use websites is an important aspect of every-day life to most people, including
disabled people. However, despite the existence of technical guidelines for accessibility for …

Implementing recommendations from web accessibility guidelines: a comparative study of nondisabled users and users with visual impairments

S Schmutz, A Sonderegger, J Sauer - Human factors, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: The present study examined whether implementing recommendations of Web
accessibility guidelines would have different effects on nondisabled users than on users with …

Guidelines are only half of the story: accessibility problems encountered by blind users on the web

C Power, A Freire, H Petrie, D Swallow - Proceedings of the SIGCHI …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
This paper describes an empirical study of the problems encountered by 32 blind users on
the Web. Task-based user evaluations were undertaken on 16 websites, yielding 1383 …

Web accessibility: A review of research and initiatives

J Craven - 2006 - e-space.mmu.ac.uk
Digital technology provides the potential to widen access to information by allowing more
people to access information in a format of their choice and from a location convenient to …

The relationship between accessibility and usability of websites

H Petrie, O Kheir - Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
Accessibility and usability are well established concepts for user interfaces and websites.
Usability is precisely defined, but there are different approaches to accessibility. In addition …

Implementing recommendations from web accessibility guidelines: would they also provide benefits to nondisabled users

S Schmutz, A Sonderegger, J Sauer - Human factors, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: We examined the consequences of implementing Web accessibility guidelines for
nondisabled users. Background: Although there are Web accessibility guidelines for people …

Towards a unified definition of web accessibility

H Petrie, A Savva, C Power - Proceedings of the 12th International Web …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
To better understand what researchers and practitioners consider to be the key components
of the definition of web accessibility and to propose a unified definition of web accessibility …

[PDF][PDF] Towards mobile web accessibility: vision and challenges

R Lopes, R Bandeira, L Carriço… - Proceedings of the first …, 2010 - lirias.kuleuven.be
ABSTRACT The Mobile Web is increasingly becoming ubiquitous as an entry point to
consult and also activate services, as more and more people use smart phones as entry …

Web accessibility and people with dyslexia: a survey on techniques and guidelines

VF de Santana, R de Oliveira, LDA Almeida… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Although the dyslexia has significant occurrence in the global population, ranging from 15 to
20%, not much is known about how developers, designers, and content producers should …

Estimation of web accessibility assessment and remediation efforts

J Ganesh, SP Sahasrabudhe, NR Ghorpade - US Patent 8,572,549, 2013 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND The World WideWeb needs to be accessible to the disabled population,
which comprises a significant number of people worldwide. Accessibility design can allow …