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Web accessibility metrics are crucial for the quantitative evaluation of web sites. We present a new automatic metric called WAB, based on the WAB metric with extensions inspired from the UWEM metric. The first results are encouraging as we have obtained better precision when calculation the accessibility level measured for a site.
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Martínez, A.B., Juan, A.A., Álvarez, D., del Carmen Suárez, M. (2009). WAB*: A Quantitative Metric Based on WAB. In: Gaedke, M., Grossniklaus, M., Díaz, O. (eds) Web Engineering. ICWE 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5648. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02818-2_44
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