Application of gamification elements in accessibility testing

The concept accessibility means that a device, a service, a resource or an environment must be easily perceivable and usable by any user. More specifically, Web Accessibility means that the Web is designed so that everyone even people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate and interact with it in a concrete way, as well as create and contribute to creating content for the Web. Despite the presence of advanced and detailed guidelines, accessibility struggles to spread among web developers. The WCAG documentation became very detailed and too technical leading the accessibility guidelines to be difficult to understand and to be applied by the web developers. Precisely for this reason, the main goal of this thesis is to create a gamified web application, enriched with gamification elements and gamification design techniques. This will make the accessibility evaluation process more engaging and enthusiastic, and as a result making the guidelines more readable and accessible. WCAG4All PRO is an updated and improved version of MyWCAG4All. It aims to help web developers understand which tests should be applied to their website and which testing tools can be used. WCAG4All PRO will accompany web developer throughout the whole process of accessibility testing until their website reaches the goal, the desired conformance level. Using Gamification elements, such as rewards, a points system, levels and competition between users, WCAG4All PRO makes the experience of users more pleasant and engaging.