Looking for a humane interface: will computers ever become easy to use?
Communications of the ACM
Hypertext paths and the World-Wide Web: experiences with Walden's Paths
HYPERTEXT '97 Proceedings of the eighth ACM conference on Hypertext
Structuring and visualising the WWW by generalised similarity analysis
HYPERTEXT '97 Proceedings of the eighth ACM conference on Hypertext
Proceedings of the 9th international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks : the international journal of computer and telecommunications netowrking
The state of the art in automating usability evaluation of user interfaces
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Hypermedia and the Web: An Engineering Approach
Hypermedia and the Web: An Engineering Approach
Usability Engineering
Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities
Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities
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The Evolution of the Web and Implications for an Incremental Crawler
VLDB '00 Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Extracting evolution of web communities from a series of web archives
Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Traversing the Web: Mobility Heuristics for Visually Impaired Surfers
WISE '03 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering
What's new on the web?: the evolution of the web from a search engine perspective
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Tension, what tension?: Website accessibility and visual design
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A large-scale study of the evolution of web pages
Software—Practice & Experience - Special issue: Web technologies
Accessibility designer: visualizing usability for the blind
Assets '04 Proceedings of the 6th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
What's the web like if you can't see it?
W4A '05 Proceedings of the 2005 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)
The indexable web is more than 11.5 billion pages
WWW '05 Special interest tracks and posters of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
Evolution of web site design patterns
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance
Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance
Flexible tool support for accessibility evaluation
Interacting with Computers
Enabling an accessible web 2.0
W4A '07 Proceedings of the 2007 international cross-disciplinary conference on Web accessibility (W4A)
Ajax live regions: chat as a case example
W4A '07 Proceedings of the 2007 international cross-disciplinary conference on Web accessibility (W4A)
Accessibility of emerging rich web technologies: web 2.0 and the semantic web
W4A '07 Proceedings of the 2007 international cross-disciplinary conference on Web accessibility (W4A)
Rate of change and other metrics: a live study of the world wide web
USITS'97 Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems
interactions - Societal interfaces: solving problems, affecting change
AxsJAX: a talking translation bot using google IM: bringing web-2.0 applications to life
W4A '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international cross-disciplinary conference on Web accessibility (W4A)
Transition of accessibility evaluation tools to new standards
Proceedings of the 2009 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibililty (W4A)
Combining SADIe and AxsJAX to improve the accessibility of web content
Proceedings of the 2009 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibililty (W4A)
Dynamic injection of WAI-ARIA into web content
Proceedings of the 10th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility
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The World Wide Web (Web) is in constant evolutionary change. This evolution occurs along many fronts and is led by infrastructure developers, Web designers, technologists, and users. These multiple stake---holders ensure that the Web is a heterogeneous entity, not just in the nature of the content, but in the technology and agents used to deliver and render that content. It is precisely this heterogeneity which gives the Web its strength and its weakness. A weakness in technology adoption leading to an increasing disconnect between the actual user experience and the expected experience of the technology stakeholders. We are interested in the human factors surrounding the evolution of the Web interface; and believe that the wait is always too long for new accessibility recommendations, guidelines, and technology to be adopted. In this case, we describe a ten-year longitudinal study comprising approximately 6,000 home pages. From this study we conclude that as a `rule-of-thumb' mainstream technology is adopted at about 15% within the first three years, incremental version releases are adopted at about 10% within the first three years. However, sites which are most popular often exhibit enhanced adoption rates of between 10 and 15% over the same period. In addition, we see that accessibility guidelines are mostly ignored with only a 10% adoption rate after more than ten years. From this we infer that, for maximum accessibility adoption, guidelines might be supported and reflected in mainstream specifications instead of remaining only as a separate document.