Comparative analysis of faculties’ websites accessibility based on an automatic evaluation

In the digital age, websites constitute an important source of gathering information. The website owners are responsible for providing the accessibility of their websites to all target groups of end users. This means that all web users can perceive, understand, navigate, interact and contribute to the Web. To ensure web accessibility, many concepts, guidelines and standards have been proposed, such as Section 508, Design for all, ISO/IEC 40500:2012, and others. This paper focuses on Web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG) and includes a comparative analysis of the accessibility of faculties' websites between 2018 and 2019. Therefore, the objective of this research is to investigate the WCAG 2.0 compliance level of faculties' websites in this time period. Web accessibility was assessed using an automatic evaluation tool, called the Web Accessibility Checker. Based on the results, recommendations for improving web accessibility are presented here.