Authoring WCAG2.0-Compliant Texts for the Web through Text Readability Visualization

Eika, Evelyn; Sandnes, Frode Eika
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https://hdl.handle.net/10642/4682
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2016
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Antona, Margherita; Stephanidis, Constantine [Eds.] Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Methods, Techniques, and Best Practices p. 49-58 Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2016  
Abstract
Texts on the web need

to be readable in order to be accessible to a

wide audience. WCAG2.0 states that tests should

not exceed the reading level of

upper secondary

education

. Several readability measures have been proposed

over the last centur

y. However, these measures give

an accumulated measure of

the text and do not help pinpoint

specific

problems in the text. This

paper pro-

poses a text visualization approach

that

emphasizes

readability

issues

in

texts.

The texts are visualized in the textual domain. Th

e intention of the

visualization

approach is to draw

the attention of

the author

towards

the aspects of the text th

at

potentially are hard to read, allowing the auth

or to revise the text and conse-

quently making the text more readable.
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Springer