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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Authoring wcag2.0-compliant texts for the web through text readability visualization

Evelyn EikaFrode Eika Sandnes

pp. 49-58

Abstract

Texts on the web need to be readable in order to be accessible to a wide audience. WCAG2.0 states that tests should not exceed the reading level of upper secondary education. Several readability measures have been proposed over the last century. However, these measures give an accumulated measure of the text and do not help pinpoint specific problems in the text. This paper proposes a text visualization approach that emphasizes readability issues in texts. The texts are visualized in the textual domain. The intention of the visualization approach is to draw the attention of the author towards the aspects of the text that potentially are hard to read, allowing the author to revise the text and consequently making the text more readable.

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Antona Margherita, Stephanidis Constantine (2016) Universal access in human-computer interaction. methods, techniques, and best practices: 10th international conference, UAHCI 2016, held as part of HCI international 2016, Toronto, ON, Canada, july 17-22, 2016. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 49-58

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40250-5_5

Full citation:

Eika Evelyn, Eika Sandnes Frode (2016) „Authoring wcag2.0-compliant texts for the web through text readability visualization“, In: M. Antona & C. Stephanidis (eds.), Universal access in human-computer interaction. methods, techniques, and best practices, Dordrecht, Springer, 49–58.