On Adaptability of Web Sites for Visually Handicapped People
AH '02 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems
Improving Web Accessibility for Visually Handicapped People Using KAI
WSE '01 Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Web Site Evolution (WSE'01)
An approach based on metrics for monitoring web accessibility in Brazilian municipalities web sites
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
An evaluation of web accessibility metrics based on their attributes
Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication
Automatic web accessibility metrics: Where we are and where we can go
Interacting with Computers
Enriching information retrieval results with web accessibility measurement
Journal of Web Engineering
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The Internet offers new possibilities to the access of information, but sometimes the design of web pages obstructs the contents making them inaccessible to everybody, especially for those people with visual disabilities. Accessibility of web pages is an area that is gaining more and more interest. Not only do we have technique recommendations from the World Wide Web Consortium but also legal policies following these recommendations in several countries. In order to measure the fulfilment of these guidelines, different tools have been designed. These tools are useful mainly from the point of view of designers. However, they do not offer a global indicator of accessibility to endusers at the moment of surfing the net. For visually handicapped people, especially blind people, not only is a way necessary to know the degree of accessibility of web pages when being visited (not only the page as a whole, but also the different parts of the page). In the context of the project KAI (Kit for the Accessibility to the Internet), an accessibility measurement module has been developed, able to give a global indicator of accessibility at the moment of surfing the net. Moreover, the degree to which accessibility can be obtained in an independent way for each element belonging to the web page. This paper presents the main ideas behind this module.