An educational tool to support the accessibility evaluation process

The usefulness of this approach relies on its flexibility and updating efficiency. Adaptation to new guideline versions does not imply re-designing the evaluation engine but guidelines editing. The guidelines specification language is based on XML.

All these guideline specification languages make possible adapting quite straightforwardly to new guideline versions or novel guidelines. However, these guidelines specification languages are mostly based on general purpose accessibility sets of guidelines. Consequently some specific purpose guidelines may not be defined since previous study of specific accessibility sets of guidelines and their definition in those languages is not provided.

In addition, the developed definition languages are quite complex and appropriate tools for defining, editing, sharing and searching for accessibility i The framework has been devised to be applied in different accessibility assessment scenarios so as to separate generic accessibility from domain-specific issues such as evaluating accessibility for different users and device types. Baguma et al. The user can carry out an accessibility evaluation from a range of pre-defined guideline sets, and can select which individual guidelines within a set are used.

The Accessibility Guidelines Management Framework proposed by Arrue et al [2], is a repository of different sets of guidelines including general web accessibility, as well as those for different application types, end-users and specific user and application type. The framework consists of a web application which allows the u With some additional effort and even a cursory analysis of WCAG 2. The user can carry out an accessibility evaluation fromsa range of pre-defined guidelin These have primarily been developed to supportsWCAG conformance review.

Documents: Advanced Search Include Citations. Authors: Advanced Search Include Citations. Results 1 - 7 of 7. Including heterogeneous web accessibility guidelines in the development process by Myriam Arrue , Markel Vigo , Julio Abascal , The use of web applications has extremely increased in the last few years. However, some groups of users may experience difficulties when accessing them.

Many different sets of accessibility guidelines have been developed in order to improve the quality of web interfaces. Some of them are Some of them are of general purpose whereas others are specific for user, application or access device characteristics.

The existing amount of heterogeneous accessibility guidelines makes it difficult to find, select and handle them in the development process. This paper proposes a flexible framework which facilitates and promotes the web accessibility awareness during all the development process. The basis of this framework is the Unified Guidelines Language UGL , a uniform guidelines specification language developed as a result of a comprehensive study of different sets of guidelines.

The main components of the framework are the guidelines management tool and the flexible evaluation module. Therefore, sharing, extending and searching for adequate accessibility guidelines as well as evaluating web accessibility according to different sets of guidelines become simpler tasks.

Citation Context Development and trial of an educational tool to support the accessibility evaluation process. The software incorporates a structured walkthrough appro The software incorporates a structured walkthrough approach to guide the auditor through a series of checks for established accessibility principles with the goal of conducting a comprehensive accessibility evaluation.

The tool also offers the functionality to tailor the evaluation and prioritise checks based on the needs of two different user groups, or the specific content features of the website. Christopher Bailey, Elaine Pearson. Teesside University. Overview Fingerprint. Abstract This paper describes the development of a web accessibility knowledge management tool, known as the Accessibility Evaluation Assistant AEA , designed to assist novice auditors in the process of an accessibility evaluation.

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