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Translations[Draft] eAccessibility Research Topics
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Introduction
This page provides a collection of e-accessibility research topics. The topics listed here are created from input collected through the RDWG Wiki 
. Please send topic suggestions and further resources to public-wai-rd-comments@w3.org, a publicly archived mailing list.
Accessibility Evaluation
- Accreditation Methods - Accreditation, Accessibility, Certification
- Benchmarking Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools - Defining controlled testing environments to help benchmark and improve the performance of web accessibility evaluation tools.
- User Evaluation Methods for Web Accessibility Evaluation - User evaluation, evaluation, conformance, guidelines.
- Web Accessibility Metrics (Symposium) - Exploring approaches for measuring the level of web accessibility in more granular forms than the discrete conformance levels defined by the WAI Guidelines.
- Web Page Sampling - Evaluation, Quality Assurance, Conformance
Accessible Profiling
- CSS Accessibility - Analyzing potential accessibility benefits of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) beyond the well known use cases.
- Tangible_Interfaces - Evaluation, Benchmarking, Metrics, Samples
- Technologies for Accessibility such as Voice and Braille Interface
- User modelling - Adaptation of user interfaces to individual users or to a group of users, Software development
Accessible Content Creation
- Authoring Accessibility - Simple, Authoring Language, Rapid Development
- Dynamic Content Accessibility - Guidelines, Assistive Technologies
- Guideline Specification Languages - Exploring rules for formulating unambiguous and testable accessibility requirements.
- HTML(5) Accessibility - Guidelines
- Static Documents on the Web: Document Accessibility - Guidelines, Static Documents, Structure & Design, File Formats
- WAI-ARIA Support - Guidelines, Assistive Technologies, Clients
- Web Inclusion - Inclusion, Developing Regions, Internationalization, Low Income
Accessible Content Elements & Application Domains
- Accessible Ads - Guidelines, Mobile
- Accessible Maps - Guidelines, Mobile, Assistive Technologies
- Accessible Notifications - Guidelines, Evaluation, Conformance, Specification
- Accessible Security - Security, Language, Questions, Easy to read
- E-learning Accessibility
- Easy to Read on the Web (Symposium) - Examine current practices, tools, and approaches for providing text that is understandable to different audiences.
- Inclusion by Accessible Social Media
- Smart Images
- Text Customization for Readability (Symposium) - Investigating the user needs and impact on the presentation of text to improve its readability.
Benefits & Costs of Accessibility
Future Trends of Accessibility
- Augmented Reality / Internet of things - Opportunities and dangers, Accessibility tagging
- Cloud Computing Accessibility - Exploring the opportunities and challenges of cloud computing on accessibility for people with disabilities.
- Open Research Frameworks - Framework, Open Research, Accessible Tools
- Ubiquitous Web Accessibility - Guidelines, Evaluation, Accessible Tools
- Virtual Reality Technologies - Opportunities and dangers, Guidelines
Mobile and Device Independence
- Mobile Accessibility (Symposium) - Exploring the opportunities and challenges of mobile devices on accessibility for people with disabilities.