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In many situations it is useful to measure the level of accessibility of websites using a more continual scale rather than the rather limited set of four ordinal values (none, A, AA, and AAA) proposed by the W3C/WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). For example, a continual scale allows more granular benchmarking of websites to compare them or to help assess improvements made over time. However, finding reliable metrics is a non-trivial challenge for a variety of reasons. This paper introduces a Special Thematic Session to explore this challenge, further to a previously held online symposium of the W3C/WAI Research and Development Working Group (RDWG).
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Abou-Zahra, S. (2012). Website Accessibility Metrics: Introduction to the Special Thematic Session. In: Miesenberger, K., Karshmer, A., Penaz, P., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7382. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31522-0_58
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