User testing tool : towards a tool for crowdsource-enabled accessibility evaluation of websites

2013

Masteroppgave i informasjonssystemer - Universitetet i Agder 2013 This thesis describes the first open source tool to combine user testing and automated testing to check accessibility of websites. User Testing Tool (UTT) integrates with an existing automated checker for testing websites against the WCAG 2.0 guidelines. UTT generates and presents questions that need human verification, such as wether an alternative text representation is appropriate for an image on a web page. In the future, collected data can be used to both improve the accessibility of the website, as well as making the automatic checker smarter. How to enable more people to improve accessibility testing is the main questi…