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AChecker: open, interactive, customizable, web accessibility checking

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Given Web accessibility checkers often produce different results when analysing the same Web content, it is difficult to know for sure whether they are correctly applying accessibility guidelines. The AChecker, Open Source, Web Accessibility Checker was developed to make accessibility analysis transparent so that users can understand exactly how accessibility is being assessed.

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W4A '10: Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)
April 2010
223 pages
ISBN:9781450300452
DOI:10.1145/1805986
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