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Title:
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ON THE USE OF A CONTINUOUS ACCESSIBILITY
ASSESSMENT PROCESS FOR DEALING WITH WEBSITE
EVOLUTION |
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Author(s):
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Aline Bossi Pereira da Silva, Celmar Guimarães da Silva and Regina Lúcia de Oliveira Moraes |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8533-91-3 |
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Editors:
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Katherine Blashki and Yingcai Xiao |
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Year:
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2019 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Accessibility Evaluation, Accessibility Tools, Website Accessibility Assessment |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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35 |
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Last Page:
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42 |
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Language:
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English |
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Cover:
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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The accessibility of the websites is important to ensure the full access of relevant information to people with disabilities.
Website evolution impacts the website accessibility, as the amount of accessibility faults in websites tend to increase during
this phase. Normally, the accessibility evaluation is done before deployment but there is a lack of accessibility maintenance
after evolution. Although legislation has been established for government websites, updates are not always conducted. This
paper hypothesizes that adopting a continuous validation process of website accessibility could facilitate accessibility
maintenance after each evolution. For this end, a tool was adapted to support developers on finding and fixing the
accessibility faults. We invited governmental websites managers to participate on our evaluation procedure that was based
on failures report by email, questionnaire and direct contact, to make them aware of the regulation and the faults found in
the websites under their responsibility. Even after our contact and constant messages sent by email suggesting how to fix
the faults the adhesion was low. The results suggested a notable lack of interest towards the regulation compliance and a
strong lack of sensitivity towards people's disabilities. |
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