Automatically: An Automated Refactoring Method and Tool for Improving Web Accessibility

Website is one of the major sources of information today and should be accessible to everyone including people with disabilities. Web accessibility becomes an important aspect of accessing a web that is set in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standard. However, so many websites that have not implemented the WCAG standard. Some of the reasons are the length of time to learn about it and difficult to understand. Therefore, many studies have been done to improve this web accessibility. The solution offered by previous researchers still uses manual code fixes. The problem that arises is time-consuming code changes because there are many web pages need to fix. The automated refactoring method is believed to be able to solve the problem. We develop a method and tool that can improve web accessibility automatically (automated refactoring), also improve the accessibility faster than refactoring manually. The implementation of Automatically is done by modifying the existing automated evaluation tool, namely HTML Code Sniffer and implementing 40 techniques from WCAG standard that can be automated. From the functional testing performed, 5 websites chosen to be tested successfully to reduce errors in the source code. Comparison of manual refactoring methods and Automatically tools is also conducted to 5 websites. Total changes or parameters performed using manual refactoring is more than using Automatically. It can be concluded that the tool is able to increase web accessibility automatically and successfully improve the web faster than manual refactoring.