Exploring Widget Identification Techniques for Web Accessibility

Abstract

This study investigates the research surroundingWeb accessibility issues, and the required knowledge and techniques to discoverWeb widgets from the Web page's source code. It provides a literature review of the coverage, and the overlap of previous studies for the Widget Identication and Modication for Web 2.0 Access Technologies (WIMWAT) project. Making the Web accessible is difficult, and at the rapid rate it is evolving, the Web needs additional help. Very few research have been done to identify Web widgets from the Web page's source code, and none has tried to evaluate the accessibility of the content manipulated by them. To fill this gap, we suggest widgets can be discovered from source code through reverse engineering, and evaluating the accessibility of the widget's manipulated content, so that patterns where inaccessible content may be produced can be modified into an accessible form.