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• Text Customization Symposium draft page (outdated) was used for editing from the first published version to the second of the main page & CfP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• Text Customization topic proposal (outdated) is an old internal planning page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

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Completed Research Topics

1. Benchmarking Web Accessibility Metrics (Automated Metrics, Evaluation, Benchmarking.)