MAUVE++ Accessibility Validator

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This is MAUVE++ validator v 1.0

MAUVE++ validator is a project of HIIS Lab at ISTI - CNR, currently mantained by Fabio Paternò, Marco Manca and Nicola Iannuzzi.

Currentely there are 1870 registered users

15352 single pages have been evaluated since May the 10th 2021

4234 multi evaluations have been performed since September the 29th 2019 for a total of 50293 validated pages

MAUVE++(Multiguideline Accessibility and Usability Validation Environment) is a system to evaluate accessibility of websites by checking their HTML and CSS code through guidelines, it provides validation results for different types of stakeholders, and supports validation of W3C WCAG 2.1 guidelines.

At the moment MAUVE++ is able to validate the accessibility of web pages in relation to the following guidelines:

Additional information about MAUVE can be found in the following papers:

Broccia G., Manca M.Paternò F.Pulina F.: "Flexible Automatic Support for Web Accessibility Validation" Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer InteractionJune 2020 Article No.: 83 v. 4 , (June 2020): Print.

Antonio Giovanni Schiavone, Fabio Paternò: "An extensible environment for guidelinebased accessibility evaluation of dynamic Web-applications" Universal Access in the Information Society v. 14 , no. 1 (March 2015): 111-132 Print.

A more general discussion about the relevance of automatic validation tools in websites' accessibility assessment can be found in the following paper:

Fabio Paternò, Antonio Giovanni Schiavone: "The role of tool support in public policies and accessibility" ACM Interactions v. 22 , no. 3 (April 2015): 60-63 Print.