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Evaluating web accessibility for specific mobile devices

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Amaia Aizpurua,

Julio AbascalAuthors Info & Claims

W4A '08: Proceedings of the 2008 international cross-disciplinary conference on Web accessibility (W4A)

Pages 65 - 72

https://doi.org/10.1145/1368044.1368059

Published: 21 April 2008 Publication History

Abstract

This paper presents a tool for evaluating web accessibility for mobile devices regardless their software, hardware or user agent characteristics. Taking the mobileOK Basic tests by the W3C as a basis, these tests are extended so that device characteristics can be considered in the evaluation process. A sound tool that takes into account these extended tests has been developed. Device features of a given device are retrieved from heterogeneous device description repositories and CC/PP based profiles are automatically generated. Based on these profiles, evaluation queries are dynamically created obtaining device-tailored evaluation reports. Finally, in order to demonstrate the feasibility of the tool, a case study has been conducted concluding that the tool reduces the number of false positives and false negatives.

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DOI:10.1145/1368044

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