A proposed architecture for large scale web accessibility assessment

  • Authors:

  • Mikael Holmesland Snaprud;Nils Ulltveit-Moe;Anand Balachandran Pillai;Morten Goodwin Olsen

  • Affiliations:

  • Faculty of Engineering, Agder University College, Grimstad, Norway;Faculty of Engineering, Agder University College, Grimstad, Norway;SpikesourceIndia Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India;Faculty of Engineering, Agder University College, Grimstad, Norway

  • Venue:
  • ICCHP'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper outlines the architecture of a system designed to demonstrate large scale web accessibility assessment developed in a European research project. The system consists of a set of integrated software components designed to automatically evaluate accessibility metrics for a large number of websites and present results in a common report. The system architecture is designed to be maintainable, scalable, and extensible in order to facilitate further development of the tool. To meet these design criteria within a limited set of resources, an Open Source approach is adopted both for selecting, designing and developing the software