AET tool for hybrid accessibility evaluation

Accessible websites are a necessity for everyone, especially for people with disabilities. However, this is an objective that has not been achieved yet and requires initiatives that continue guiding the way towards an increasingly inclusive web and lowering accessibility barriers. One of the first steps in this regard is to identify the accessibility level of a particular website, and for this purpose, a set of automatic tools and manual instruments have been developed. These tools allow calculating an accessibility level from the expert’s perspective and from the website’s source code using as a reference the accessibility guidelines defined by the W3C. The authors state that evaluating accessibility with just one of these methods is not enough, so therefore its integration is required. This article presents a tool called Accessibility Evaluation Tool, which allows and facilitates the integration of the accessibility evaluation delivered by an automatic validator with the manual evaluation of elements by experts.