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Web testing has long been recognized as a notoriously difficult task. Even nowadays, web testing still heavily relies on manual efforts while automated web testing is far from achieving human-level performance. Key challenges in web testing…

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The ongoing paradigm change in the scholarly publication system ('science is turning to e-science') makes it necessary to construct alternative evaluation criteria/metrics which appropriately take into account the unique characteristics of…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Philipp Mayr

Pedestrian accessibility is an important factor in urban transport and land use policy and critical for creating healthy, sustainable cities. Developing and evaluating indicators measuring inequalities in pedestrian accessibility can help…

Ensuring web accessibility is crucial for advancing social welfare, justice, and equality in digital spaces, yet the vast majority of website user interfaces remain non-compliant, due in part to the resource-intensive and unscalable nature…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Ming Gu , Ziwei Wang , Sicen Lai , Zirui Gao , Sheng Zhou , Jiajun Bu

This article proposes to describe and compare the contributions of various techniques of evaluation of the accessibility of E-services carried out starting from (i) methods of inspection (on the basis of traditional ergonomic criteria and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2007-12-14 Marc-Eric Bobiller-Chaumon , Françoise Sandoz-Guermond

As mobile applications (apps) become ubiquitous in everyday life, it is crucial for developers to prioritize accessibility for users with diverse abilities. While previous research has identified widespread accessibility issues and raised…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Amila Indika , Rick Kazman , Anthony Peruma

Web applications are becoming more and more complex. Testing such applications is an intricate hard and time-consuming activity. Therefore, testing is often poorly performed or skipped by practitioners. Test automation can help to avoid…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-08-12 Boni García , Juan Carlos Dueñas

This research explores the accessibility issues with regard to the e-commerce websites in developing countries, through a study of Sri Lankan hotel websites. A web survey and a web content analysis were conducted as the methods to elicit…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2013-02-26 Arunasalam Sambhanthan , Alice Good

This research explores the accessibility issues with regard to the e-commerce websites in developing countries, through a subjective study of Sri Lankan hotel websites. A web survey and a web content analysis were conducted as the methods…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-02-26 Arunasalam Sambhanthan , Alice Good

The vision of providing access to all web content equally for all users makes web accessibility a fundamental goal of today's internet. Web accessibility is the practice of removing barriers from websites that could hinder functionality for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Kowndinya Boyalakuntla , Akhila Sri Manasa Venigalla , Sridhar Chimalakonda

The advance of web services technologies promises to have far-reaching effects on the Internet and enterprise networks allowing for greater accessibility of data. The security challenges presented by the web services approach are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-06-15 Michele Barletta , Silvio Ranise , Luca Viganò

The most exciting challenge for CRIS is to create a service for research information which should be wide-spread, distributed and actual like Google, but at the same time structured, trusted, with a complex search and navigation similar to…

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This paper proposes a more comprehensive evaluation methodology to measure the usability and user experience qualities of accessible synchronous computer-mediated communication applications. The methodology goes beyond current practices by…

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Semantic Web is an open, distributed, and dynamic environment where access to resources cannot be controlled in a safe manner unless the access decision takes into account during discovery of web services. Security becomes the crucial…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-05-03 Mandeep Kaur Gondara

Many apps have basic accessibility issues, like missing labels or low contrast. Automated tools can help app developers catch basic issues, but can be laborious or require writing dedicated tests. We propose a system, motivated by a…

Being able to access software in daily life is vital for everyone, and thus accessibility is a fundamental challenge for software development. However, given the number of accessibility issues reported by many users, e.g., in app reviews,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Tingting Bi , Xin Xia , David Lo , John Grundy , Thomas Zimmermann , Denae Ford

Web content should be accessible to normal and disabled communities on electronic devices. The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has created standard guidelines called Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Mobile Web Best Practice…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Muhammad Ishaq

Accessible design for some may still produce barriers for others. This tension, called access friction, creates challenges for both designers and end-users with disabilities. To address this, we present the concept of softerware, a system…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Frank Elavsky , Marita Vindedal , Ted Gies , Patrick Carrington , Dominik Moritz , Øystein Moseng

Low-code applications are gaining popularity across various fields, enabling non-developers to participate in the software development process. However, due to the strong reliance on graphical user interfaces, they may unintentionally…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Mohammadali Mohammadkhani , Sara Zahedi Movahed , Hourieh Khalajzadeh , Mojtaba Shahin , Khuong Tran Hoang

Web accessibility remains an unresolved issue for a large part of the web content. There are many tools to detect errors automatically, but fixing those issues is still mostly a manual, slow, and costly process in which it is easy for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Carla Fernández-Navarro , Francisco Chicano