Analyzing tool support for inspecting accessibility guidelines during the development process of web sites

Authors:
Joseph Xiong;Christelle Farenc;Marco Winckler
Affiliations:
LIIHS, IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Cedex 4, France;LIIHS, IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Cedex 4, France;LIIHS, IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Cedex 4, France
Venue:
WISE'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Web information systems engineering
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Whilst accessibility is widely agreed as an essential requirement for promoting universal access of information, many Web sites still fail to provide accessible content. This paper investigates the support given by currently available tools for taking care of accessibility at different phases of the development process. At first, we provide a detailed classification of accessibility guidelines according to several levels of automation. Then we analyze which kind of automated inspection is supported by currently available tools for building Web sites. Lately, by the means of a case study we try to assess the possibility of fixing accessibility problems at early phases of the development process. Our results provide insights for improving current available tools and for taking accessibility at all phases of development process of Web sites.