Web Accessibility Challenges

Evaluating Conformance to WCAG 2.0: Open Challenges

Web accessibility for people with disabilities is a highly visible área of work in the field of ICT accessibility, including many policy activities in several countries. The commonly accepted guidelines for web accessibility (WCAG 1.0) were published in 1999 and have been extensively used by designers, evaluators and legislators. A new versión of these guidelines (WCAG 2.0) was published in 200...

Challenges and Benefits of a Methodology for Scoring Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Conformance

Improving WCAG for elderly web accessibility

The increase of aging people and the possibilities that are extended to the Internet users have led studies into improvement of web accessibility solutions for older people [30]. Most older adults present some decline in their cognitive, visual, hearing and motor skills [13]. Nowadays, however, the Web faces new technological challenges that extend the initial idea of cross-platform and inter-o...

WCAG 2.0 Semi-automatic Accessibility Evaluation System: Design and Implementation

The current state of web accessibility evaluation systems is encouraging, yet not sufficient. Many evaluation systems were developed for evaluating websites based on WCAG 2.0 recommendations, however, their effectiveness is somewhat incomplete. Specifically, web accessibility evaluation systems, not being able to handle a website language poses a series of challenges for web accessibility evalu...

Developing A Holistic Approach For E-Learning Accessibility

The importance of accessibility to digital resources is now widely acknowledged. The W3C WAI has played a significant role in promoting the importance of accessibility and developing a framework for accessible Web resources. The accessibility of elearning provides additional challenges that may not be faced when providing access to other Web resources. The authors argue that there is a need for...