A Practitioner’s Approach to Assess the WCAG 2.0 Website Accessibility Challenges

Now-a-days many of the users are accessing a website through their mobile devices. The user with a low vision disability finds difficult in accessing the content of the site using a mobile. This point made the researcher to think of website evaluation and identified that verification is needed to determine how best a website is accessible even for a person with different disabilities. The present article has reviewed 43 literatures and studied how their research is carried out, what suggestions they made, and what architecture frameworks or methods they suggested to evaluate the accessibility of a website content. The article also studied how the existing literatures considered W3C guidelines like WCAG 2.0 while developing the website. The main objective of the research is concluded with identifying of similarities with the past and the present research activities. Finally, a comparative study was made and later analyzed to determine their outcomes and some barriers if any.

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