Memorias de investigación
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On the testability of WCAG 2.0 for beginners
Year:2010
Research Areas
  • Information technology and adata processing,
  • Computer systems
Information
Abstract
Web accessibility for people with disabilities is a highly visible area of research in the field of ICT accessibility, including many policy activities across many 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. W3C-WAI published a new version of these guidelines (WCAG 2.0) in December 2008. One of the main goals of WCAG 2.0 was testability, that is, WCAG 2.0 should be either machine testable or reliably human testable. In this paper we present an educational experiment performed during an intensive web accessibility course. The goal of the experiment was to assess the testability of the 25 level-A success criteria of WCAG 2.0 by beginners. To do this, the students had to manually evaluate the accessibility of the same web page. The result was that only eight success criteria could be considered to be reliably human testable when evaluators were beginners. We also compare our experiment with a similar study published recently. Our work is not a conclusive experiment, but it does suggest some parts of WCAG 2.0 to which special attention should be paid when training accessibility evaluators.
International
Si
Congress
2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)
960
Place
Raleigh (USA)
Reviewers
Si
ISBN/ISSN
978-1-4503-0045-2
Start Date
26/04/2010
End Date
27/04/2010
From page
1
To page
9
Proceedings of 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)
Participants
Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Grupo de Investigación en Tecnología Informática y de las Comunicaciones: CETTICO