Automated evaluation of web usability and accessibility by guideline review
(2004) 4th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2004) — Location: Munich(Germany) (26.July.2004)
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- A novel approach is presented for automatically evaluating of the usability and accessibility (U&A) of web sites by performing a static analysis of their HTML code against U&A guidelines. The approach relies on separating guidelines evaluation logic from the evaluation engine. Due to this separation, the whole evaluation process can be divided into two main phases: specifying formal guidelines and web page evaluation. In the first phase, the formal structure of a guideline is expressed in terms of Guideline Definition Language (GDL). In the second phase, the web page is parsed to identify its contents and structure and link them to relevant guidelines to be evaluated on the page parsed. This approach enables the simultaneous evaluation of multiple guidelines selected on demand from different sources. It also optimises evaluation by automatically identifying common sub-structures among structured guidelines. It also supports the expression, by evaluators with different usability practises, of alternative evaluation strategies.
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Vanderdonckt, J., Beirekdar, A., & Noirhomme-Fraiture, M. (2004). Automated evaluation of web usability and accessibility by guideline review. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3140, 17-30. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27834-4_4 (Original work published 2004)