Thesis supervisor: Cecília Sikné Lányi
Location of studies (in Hungarian): University of Pannonia H-8200 Veszprém, Egyetem u. 10. Abbreviation of location of studies: PE
Description of the research topic:
The common web content management technologies in recent years have undergone a rapid development. On October 26, 2016 the European Council approved the EU 2016/2102 Directive on the accessibility of the websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies. The directive prescribes regular monitoring and certificating/reporting. Moreover, the newest version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, WCAG 2.1 was released on 05 June 2018 and the first public working draft of WCAG 2.2. was realised on 27 February 2020 Therefore, IT professionals confront with new challenges for testing their web sites.
The doctoral candidate is responsible to analyse which of the possible new accessibility software process improvements can be realized to conform to the new WCAG 2.1 standard. The research should review the solutions from health informatics approaches; the needs of people with disabilities and the public-sector application areas. The work should include the examination of the WCAG 2.1 conform accessibility tests. Unfortunately, the number of those tests is less than 8. Therefore, it is a crucial research topic to develop new, faster and more precise algorithms and method for detecting most of the errors which hurt accessibility success criterions.
More subtasks are: to work out statistical procedures for error analysis; algorithms for classification of errors. The final goal is to create a new method for automatic testing and working out a unique evaluation for experts’ tests parallelly.
Preliminary results can be found in the following publications:
Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) 2.2: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/
Sik-Lanyi, C., Orbán-Mihálykó, É. Accessibility Testing of European Health-Related Websites. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (Arab J Sci Eng), 2019, 44(11):9171-9190 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-019-04017-z (IF=1.518 in 2018)
Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) 2.1: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/
Watson L.: EU Directive on the Accessibility of Public Sector and Mobile Applications: https://developer.paciellogroup.com/blog/2018/04/eu-directive-on-the-accessibility-of-public-sector-websites-and-mobile-applications/
Aizpurua, A. et al.: Prejudices, memories, expectations and confidence influence experienced accessibility on the Web, Computers in Human Behavior, 51(A):152-160, 2015
Vieritz, H. et al.: Merging Web Accessibility and Usability by Patterns, Chapter in Computers helping People with Special Needs, LNCS 6179, pp. 336-342, 2012.
Czank, N., Sik, and A., Sik Lányi C.: Testing the Accessibility of WEB Sites, International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence (IJKWI), 2(1): 87-98, 2011.
Number of students who can be accepted: 1
Deadline for application: 2020-09-30
2024. IV. 17. ODT ülés Az ODT következő ülésére 2024. június 14-én, pénteken 10.00 órakor kerül sor a Semmelweis Egyetem Szenátusi termében (Bp. Üllői út 26. I. emelet).
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