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Research and Development Working Group (RDWG) Wiki
Welcome to the RDWG Wiki. This wiki is collaboratively maintained by participants of the W3C/WAI Research and Development Working Group (RDWG). It contains a collection of research topics related to web accessibility. The purpose of this wiki is to collect information about web accessibility research and development activities.
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Current Research Topic
2. Mobile Accessibility Mobile / Mobile Accessibility Call / Mobile_Pre_CFP / Mobile Topic Timeline; including Accessible Mobile Web Applications and Touch Interfaces. Editors will be Simon Harper, Yeliz Yesilada and Peter Thiessen.
Research Topic Next Up
3. Text Customization for Readability (TC4R)
- TC4R Symposium main page on the WAI website
- Call for Proposals on the WAI website
- Text Customization Symposium draft page (outdated) was used for editing from the first published version to the second of the main page & CfP
- Topic 3 Timeline includes Topic 4
- Topic 3 pre-call has notes
- Text Customization topic proposal (outdated) is an old internal planning page
- Editors will be Shawn Henry, David Sloan
4. Easy to Read (e2r)
- e2r Symposium main page on the WAI website - TBD
- Call for Proposals on the WAI website - TBD
- Easy2Read_Symposium_draft_page currently has the draft Call for Papers following the structure of topic 3.
- Topic 4 timeline is included in Topic 3 Timeline
- Topic 4 pre-call holds the condensed topic descripton - to be included into the main page and the Call
- Easy_to_Read holds the original topic discussion - to be tranfered into the main page and the Call
- Editors will be Klaus Miesenberger, Andrea Petz and Birgit Peböck (provisionally).
5. Topic 5 TBA / Topic 5 Timeline
6. Topic 6 TBA / Topic 6 Timeline
Proposed Research Topics (in Chronological Order of Creation)
The following is an initial, non-exhaustive list of proposed research topics. It will be continually expanded and refined by RDWG in the coming weeks:
- Accreditation Methods (Accreditation, Accessibility, Certification.)
- Authoring Accessibility (Simple, Authoring Language, Rapid Development.)
- Benchmarking Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools (Evaluation, Benchmarking, Metrics, Samples.)
- Easy to Read (Guidelines, Language, Internationalization.)
- Guideline Specification Languages (Guidelines, Evaluation, Conformance, Specification.)
- Open Research Frameworks (Framework, Open Research, Accessible Tools.)
- Web Inclusion (Inclusion, Developing Regions, Internationalization, Low Income.)
- Web Page Sampling (Evaluation, Quality Assurance, Conformance.)
- Ubiquitous Web Accessibility (Guidelines, Evaluation, Accessible Tools.)
- User Evaluation Methods for Web Accessibility Evaluation (User evaluation, evaluation, conformance, guidelines.)
- Benefits of Accessibility.
- Accessible Security (Security, Language, Questions, Easy to read)
- Cloud Computing Accessibility (Chances, Risks, Tools)
- Accessible Ads (Guidelines, Mobile)
- CSS Accessibility (CSS, Style)
- WAI-ARIA Support (Guidelines, Assistive Technologies, Clients)
- Technologies for Accessibility such as Voice and Braille Interface
- Virtual Reality technologies (Opportunities and dangers, Guidelines)
- Augmented Reality / Internet of things (Opportunities and dangers, Accessibility tagging)
- Accessible Maps (Guidelines, Mobile, Assistive Technologies)
- Static Documents on the Web: Document Accessibility (Guidelines, Static Documents, Structure & Design, File Formats)
- User modelling (Adaptation of user interfaces to individual users or to a group of users, Software development)
- HTML(5) Accessibility (Guidelines)
- Dynamic Content Accessibility (Guidelines, Assistive Technologies)
- Inclusion by Accessible Social Media
- Sign Language on the Web
- Internet_of_Things
- Tangible_Interfaces
- Smart Images
- Accessible Notifications
- E-learning Accessibility
Note: Please use the Template for creating new topics.
Completed Research Topics
1. Benchmarking Web Accessibility Metrics (Automated Metrics, Evaluation, Benchmarking.)