“Access for all to the Information
Society is a key goal for the European Union. With increasing use of the World
Wide Web – in particular for government information and services, it is
essential to secure access for all citizens. Yet many people - especially those
with a disability – meet barriers. Benchmarking can locate potential barriers
and fuel the development towards Internet access for all.
The European Internet Accessibility
Observatory (EIAO) project has
established a large scale accessibility benchmarking service. The distributed
system consisting of 9 servers can process 100 web sites per day according to
26 of the automatable tests specified in Unified Web Evaluation Methodology (UWEM 1.2).”
Source: http://www.eiao.net/
Publications for 2008 at http://www.eiao.net/publications/
Bühler, C., Heck, H., Nietzio, A., Olsen, M. G. and Snaprud M. H. (2008 ) Monitoring
Accessibility of Governmental Web Sites in Europe . In: ICCHP Linz, Austria [PDF]
Nietzio, A., Strobbe, C., and Velleman, E. ( 2008 ) The
Unified Web Evaluation Methodology (UWEM) 1.2 for WCAG 1.0 . In: ICCHP Linz, Austria [PDF]
Thomsen, C., Pedersen, T. B. ( 2008 ) RiTE: Providing on-demand data for right time data
warehousing . [IEEExplore]
Snaprud M. Sawicka A. ( 2008 ) Global Event on Measuring the Information Society,
Geneva 27-29. Invited talk, eGovMoNet, eGovernment Monitor Network. . [PDF]
Snaprud M. Sawicka A. ( 2008 ) Measuring Accessibility: The potential of large scale
benchmarking Invited talk Madrid, Second European Observatories Summit, Madrid
24-25. January .
[PDF]
Snaprud M. Sawicka A. ( 2008 ) Open Source tool to Monitor eGovernment, Go Open
conference, Oslo 9-10. April .
[PDF]
And also the resources at http://www.eiao.net/resources
On this blog: New Web Content Accessibility Guidelines: WCAG 2.0 (finally) released (2008-12) at http://europa-eu-audience.typepad.com/en/2008/12/new-web-content-accessibility-guidelines-wcag-20-finally-released-.html
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