A pilot study for evaluating Arabic websites using automated WCAG 2.0 evaluation tools

Abstract

Nowadays, automatic WCAG 2.0 evaluation tools are increasing in numbers, however, there is little evidence of whether these tools are able to evaluate Arabic websites and provide reflective recommendations to improve their accessibility. To gain insight into this issue, we conducted a pilot study to evaluate a set of WCAG 2.0 tools and report on their results. We believe that our study is the first study to consider evaluating WCAG 2.0 automated evaluation tools for Arabic websites.