Monitoring methodologies for web accessibility in the European Union

The study has been carried out to satisfy three main objectives: - Provide an up-to-date description of the state of web accessibility monitoring in the countries covered. This objective is satisfied through comprehensive data gathering from the countries covered and an empirical analysis of the data gathered to detect main trends and compose an overall picture of web accessibility monitoring initiatives in Europe. - Validate a set of existing national monitoring methodologies for verifying how actually they measure web accessibility and how reliable these methods are. This objective is implemented through a practical exercise for cross-checking 5 existing monitoring methodologies with WCAG Evaluation Methodology. - Introduce a set of practical recommendations for a web accessibility monitoring methodology. The recommendations are based on the data gathered, analysed and validated, taking also into account policy, technical and financial implications.