Identifying Web Widgets

The Web 2.0 concepts encourage presented content to be updated dynamically, without the need for Web pages to be reloaded. However, these concepts require assistive technologies to adapt the way that they interact with Web pages. This report provides an insight into the problem, and introduces a process to identify and modify the problem at the developer's end, so that Web widgets that produces inaccessible micro-content can be modified into an accessible form. The proposed process is divided into three stages, and this report details our investigation of the rst stage; the identification stage. An evaluation of the methods used in our identifying process was conducted for two Web widgets on twenty Websites. It demonstrated that our approach is promising by achieving a 100% successful detection rate, but there were a few false positive detections. Refinements to our approach are suggested to overcome the issues raised from this investigation. We believe that we have proven that this method is feasible, and the suggested future work should be pursued.