WebComposition: an object-oriented support system for the Web engineering lifecycle
Selected papers from the sixth international conference on World Wide Web
Including Heterogeneous Web Accessibility Guidelines in the Development Process
Engineering Interactive Systems
Accessibility at early stages: insights from the designer perspective
Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility
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Accessibility should be a part of the Web design process instead of being a post-design repair process. Thus, it should be more integrated within the internal authoring tools' mechanism of generating new accessible Web contents. Web pages are usually composed of small pieces of HTML code which, dynamically nested and combined, generate full Web pages. This Web composition, specially when creating Web pages from data extracted from heterogeneous or external sources, should have accessibility into account in order to guarantee that the final page being constructed is accessible. This paper presents the set of rules that, in a Web composition process, a design tool must follow in order to create accessible Web pages. These rules are formalized with W3C standards like XPath and XQuery expressions. We also present WSLS as an accessibility enabled authoring tool that makes this task feasible, and focus in how this tool incorporates accessibility into the process of generating new Web contents.