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      Web Accessibility of Mobile and Desktop Representations

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      Proceedings of the 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2014) (HCI)
      BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2014)
      9 - 12 September 2014
      Mobile devices, Mobile accessibility, Web accessibility, Automated evaluation, Web page building methodology
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            Abstract

            This paper presents an experimental study designed to understand the accessibility differences between the desktop and mobile representations of a Web page. We performed an automatic evaluation of both representations of the home pages of 474 Web sites, using the QualWeb evaluator. We also categorized the pages according to their building methodology to understand its impact on the accessibility quality. The results show that, even if there are differences in the pages of the two delivery contexts, there are no substantial differences in the accessibility quality between both representations. An interesting result emerged when looking specifically at the building methodology of the pages. Mobile representations have better accessibility quality when developed following the non-dedicated pages building methodology. Looking at the problems of each building methodology, we were able to suggest accessibility improvements to developers/designers of Web pages.

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            Conference
            September 2014
            September 2014
            : 195-200
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            [* ]LaSIGE/University of Lisbon/Portugal/
            [** ]Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
            Article
            10.14236/ewic/HCI2014.30
            308a77b4-0790-40d1-823e-70de0bda844d
            © Nádia Fernandes et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of the 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2014), Southport, UK

            This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

            Proceedings of the 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2014)
            HCI
            28
            Southport, UK
            9 - 12 September 2014
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2014)
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Web accessibility,Automated evaluation,Mobile devices,Web page building methodology,Mobile accessibility

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