José L. Fuertes
ABSTRACT
Website accessibility evaluation is a complex task requiring a combination of human expertise and software support. There are several online and offline tools to support the manual web accessibility evaluation process. However, they all have some weaknesses because none of them includes all the desired features. In this paper we present Hera-FFX, an add-on for the Firefox web browser that supports semi-automatic web accessibility evaluation.
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Index Terms
- Hera-FFX: a Firefox add-on for semi-automatic web accessibility evaluation
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