Machine Learning applications in accessibility

A in-depth discussion of vA11y, VMware's open-source effort to make machine learning-based accessibility testing available to everyone for free. 30 % of accessibility tests are automated. But of the 70 % that are manual, almost half of them could potentially be automated through NLP, image comparison and pattern recognition. Here is what VMware is doing to make the accessibility testing split 50/50 by the end of 2021, and releasing that work into open source.

• review of existing accessibility automation
• review of what is manual
• highlighting 26 currently manual tests and how VMware is planning on automating them
• open source