The Impact of Web Accessibility Overlays on the Usability and User Experience for People with Permanent Visual Impairments

| Daniela Kubesch, MSc MSc

Double-Degree Master Thesis between the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences (degree program MultiMediaTechnology) and Halmstad University (degree program Digital Service Innovation). Supervised by Jakub Sypniewski, MSc and Maria Ã…kesson, MSc, PhD, Professor of Informatics.

Abbreviations

ACA
Accessible Canada Act
ADA
Americans with Disabilities Act
AFB
American Foundation for the Blind
AI
Artificial Intelligence
AODA
Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
ARIA
Accessible Rich Internet Applications
AUS
Accessible Usability Scale
CRPD
United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets
EAA
European Accessibility Act
EDF
European Disability Forum
EU
European Union
HCI
Human Computer Interaction
HTML
Hyper Text Markup Language
IAAP
International Association of Accessibility Professionals
ICF
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
ISO
International Organization for Standardization
IX
Interaction Experience
JS
JavaScript
NFB
National Federation of the Blind
PPM
Price Per Month
SUS
System Usability Scale
USA
United States of America
UX
User Experience
W3C
World Wide Web Consortium
WACA
Web Accessibility Certificate Austria
WAI
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
WCAG
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
WHO
World Health Organization