Is it possible to predict the manual web accessibility results using the automatic results?

Recent Updates:
New Scientific Paper:
A solution to the exact match on rare item searches: introducing the lost sheep algorithm 2011
New Blog Post:
Towards Automated eGovernment Monitoring 2011-09-26
Ph.D. Thesis:
Towards Automated eGovernment Monitoring

General Information

Download Is it possible to predict the manual web accessibility results using the automatic results? as PDF (383 KB) .

Title: Is it possible to predict the manual web accessibility results using the automatic results?.
Author(s): Carlos Casado, Loic Martinez and Morten Goodwin.
Published date: July 2009.
Published at: HCII 2009

Abstract


The most adequate approach for benchmarking web accessibility is manual expert evaluation supplemented by automatic analysis tools. But manual evaluation has a high cost and is impractical to be applied on large web sites. In reality, there is no choice but to rely on automated tools when reviewing large web sites for accessibility. The question is: to what extent the results from automatic evaluation of a web site and individual web pages can be used as an approximation for manual results? This paper presents the initial results of an investigation aimed at answering this question. He have performed both manual and automatic evaluations of the accessibility of web pages of two sites and we have compared the results. In our data set automatically retrieved results could most definitely be used as an approximation manual evaluation results.

The author of this document is:
Morten Goodwin
E-mail address is:
morten.goodwin ASCII 64 tingtun.no
Phone is:
+47 95 24 86 79

Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS! Checked by eGovMon