DocumentCode :
2187326
Title :
Web site accessibility: identifying and fixing accessibility problems in client page code
Author :
Di Lucca, G.A. ; Fasolino, A.R. ; Tramontana, P.
Author_Institution :
Res. Centre on Software Technol., Univ. of Sannio, Benevento, Italy
fYear :
2005
fDate :
26 Sept. 2005
Firstpage :
71
Lastpage :
78
Abstract :
Web accessibility is an important issue to address along Web application development. Accessibility aims to allow the access to the content of the Web application even in presence of reduced hardware/software configurations on the client side of the application (such as browser configurations disabling graphical visualization, or scripting execution), or of users with physical disabilities (such as blind people). Some guidelines and rules have been defined by several organizations to grant and assess Web accessibility. This paper presents an approach to verify if the code of client pages of an existing application does not meet some accessibility rules or guidelines, making the application not accessible to some groups of users. A model representing the several features involved in the identification of accessibility problems that client page code may contain has been defined. This model is mainly based on the recent Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Working Draft. A tool supporting the accessibility analysis and the fixing of the identified problems has been developed. Results from a case study carried out by using the proposed approach are presented and discussed.
Keywords :
Web design; authoring systems; formal verification; handicapped aids; Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Working Draft; Web application development; Web site accessibility; client page code; code verification; Application software; Government; Guidelines; Hardware; Internet; Navigation; Visualization; Web page design; Web sites;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Web Site Evolution, 2005. (WSE 2005). Seventh IEEE International Symposium on
ISSN :
1550-4441
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2470-2
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/WSE.2005.22
Filename :
1517983
Link To Document :
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