The International Web for All Conference (W4A) began in 2004 as a workshop to make the World Wide Web accessible for people with disabilities. Over the years the workshop has grown into the top conference for web accessibility research, attracting a diverse crowd from academia, industry, government, and nonprofits. W4A has become the venue for scientists, students, and practitioners from around the world to showcase their latest research, widen their perspectives through discussions with peers, and establish future research agendas.
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A return to community: Flintstones or Jetsons?
The Conference theme is "Automation for Accessibility". What I want to look at today is the effect of automation on the lives of people living with disability. In this vein, as a member of the 'Baby Boomer' generation, I reflected on a couple of ...
The case for 'health related impairments and disabilities'
Health conditions, both chronic and acute, are often accompanied by disability-like impairments that might affect mobility, cognition, or perception. These impairments are often pernicious because they are difficult to isolate, vary in intensity and ...
Deaf and hard-of-hearing users' prioritization of genres of online video content requiring accurate captions
Online video is an important information source, yet its pace of growth, including user-submitted content, is so rapid that automatic captioning technologies are needed to make content accessible for people who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing (DHH). To ...
A declarative model for accessibility requirements
The web has become the primary source of information for many people. Many services are provided are on the web. Despite extensive guidelines for the accessibility of web pages, many web sites are not accessible making these web sites difficult or ...
Accessible conversational user interfaces: considerations for design
Conversational user interfaces (CUIs), such as chatbots and voice assistants, are increasingly common in areas of day-to-day life, and can be expected to become ever more pervasive in the future. These interfaces are being designed for ever more complex ...
A saliency-driven video magnifier for people with low vision
Consuming video content poses significant challenges for many screen magnifier users, which is the "go to" assistive technology for people with low vision. While screen magnifier software could be used to achieve a zoom factor that would make the ...
Tables on the web accessible?: unfortunately not!
Web accessibility guidelines, in particular, WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines), covers a wide range of recommendations for making web content more accessible. They have technical guidance on making certain structures accessible such as tables. ...
Indoor localization for visually impaired travelers using computer vision on a smartphone
Wayfinding is a major challenge for visually impaired travelers, who generally lack access to visual cues such as landmarks and informational signs that many travelers rely on for navigation. Indoor wayfinding is particularly challenging since the most ...
Game changer: accessible audio and tactile guidance for board and card games
While board games are a popular social activity, their reliance on visual information can create accessibility problems for blind and visually impaired players. Because some players cannot easily read cards or locate pieces, they may be at a ...
Bias on the web and beyond: an accessibility point of view
The Web is the most powerful communication medium and the largest public data repository that humankind has created. Its content ranges from great reference sources such as Wikipedia to ugly fake news. Indeed, social (digital) media is just an ...
Autism detection based on eye movement sequences on the web: a scanpath trend analysis approach
Autism diagnostic procedure is a subjective, challenging and expensive procedure and relies on behavioral, historical and parental report information. In our previous, we proposed a machine learning classifier to be used as a potential screening tool or ...
Evaluation of user experience and cognitive load of a gamified cognitive training application for children with learning disabilities
This study presents a gamified application for children with learning disabilities, designed to train and improve working memory. The application takes the form of a treasure hunt, and is designed according to a framework incorporating guidelines ...
Screening risk of dyslexia through a web-game using language-independent content and machine learning
Children with dyslexia are often diagnosed after they fail school even if dyslexia is not related to general intelligence. In this work, we present an approach for universal screening of dyslexia using machine learning models with data gathered from a ...
PDF readability enhancement on mobile devices
In the past, researchers studied readability enhancement of English articles for non-native English readers, either on paper reading or hypertext reading. Using a variety of methods, researchers were able to enhance the reading comprehension and the ...
Supporting the design of data visualisation for the visually impaired through reinforcement learning
The aim of the research is to present a possible approach to help visually impaired people to make decisions while interacting with a data visualisation task. The main goal is to build a Machine Learning model (i.e. Reinforcement Learning) that can ...
Contextual adaptive communication aid: supporting individuals with neurological disease in communication
Communication Impairments (CI) are defined as damage in brain functions that are responsible for language and memory. This disorder can impair the expression and understanding of language as well as reading and writing. Many people with CI try to use ...
Using a participatory activities toolkit to elicit privacy expectations of adaptive assistive technologies
Individuals whose abilities change over time can benefit from assistive technologies that can detect and adapt to their current needs. While these Adaptive Assistive Technologies (AATs) offer exciting opportunities, their use presents an often-...
Analysis of automated contrast checking tools
Creating web pages with information that is perceivable has to be a priority concern in their development. One of the main factors impacting the ability to read text in web pages is the contrast between the text's foreground and background colors. A ...
Towards generating web-accessible STEM documents from PDF
PDF is still a very popular format that is widely used to exchange and archive electronic documents. And although considerable efforts have been made to ensure accessibility of PDF documents, they are still far from ideal when complex content like ...
Comparing accessibility evaluation plug-ins
This article reports the results of a study comparing evaluation accessibility plugins extensions for the Chrome web browser. Eight of the most well-known tools among developers were chosen. All tools are free or available under an open-source license, ...
Measuring complexity of e-government services for people with low vision
Online public services may alleviate many of the inconveniences citizens have to face when accessing public services in the real world. People with low vision may be one of the collectives who could benefit from electronic services (short as e-services) ...
Web accessibility testing for Singapore government e-services
The paper proposes a customized automated accessibility testing tool built on existing open source tools that makes upholding web accessibility standards less daunting and overwhelming for developers working on Singapore government e-services.
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