Automatic Monitoring of Web Accessibility: the Validity Issues
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This paper highlights some of the difficult issues related with validity of data that occur when dealing with results produced by automatic tools for accessibility testing. In particular the paper shows some experimental results collected by repeatedly applying a testing tool to a number of web sites at two time points and by drawing some conclusions about comparisons between web sites and across time.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006