CamPUG: Web accessibility research with Python

Peter Johnson will give a talk:

According to the WHO over 1 billion people live with some form of disability; almost everyone is likely to experience some form of disability at some point. This talk discusses the importance of web accessibility and how I used python to develop a tool that ensembles multiple accessibility evaluation tools*.*

Python’s rich set of libraries such as wxPython, matplotlib, numpy and pandas made this project possible within a short timeframe.

The process of automatic accessibility evaluation is of interest to accessibility practitioners and researchers given that manual evaluation requires a lot of time and effort. My research has shown that most accessibility evaluations are conducted using a single evaluation tool.

This talk discusses how using the python ecosystem has allowed the development of a prototype to ensemble the results from multiple automated accessibility evaluation tools. The prototype generated a HTML report which aggregated results from the different evaluation tools removing the reliance of the results from a single tool.

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