System and method for accessibility assessment of a web application

A method for accessibility testing of a web application, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a processor, an accessibility standard and a level of conformance to be achieved for accessibility testing of a webpage associated with the web application;
• identifying, by the processor, a first set of accessibility guidelines based on the accessibility standard and the level of conformance;
• identifying, by the processor, a set of elements present in the webpage;
• determining, by the processor, a second set of accessibility guidelines based upon the set of elements present in the webpage and a set of common guidelines applicable to all webpages of the web application, wherein the second set of accessibility guidelines is a subset of the first set of accessibility guidelines;
• identifying, by the processor, a number of occurrences of an element from the set of elements present in the webpage;
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• determining, by the processor using an optimization engine a time required for testing the web page using different combinations of testing tools based on the second set of accessibility guidelines, the level of conformance, and the number of occurrences of the element of each type in the webpage;
• performing, by the processor, a rule based analysis on the time required for testing the web page using different combination of testing tools to determine a combination of accessibility testing tools to be used for accessibility testing of the web application.

A computer program product having embodied thereon a computer program for accessibility testing of a web application, the computer program product comprising:

• a program code for receiving an accessibility standard and a level of conformance to be achieved for accessibility testing of a webpage associated with the web application;
• a program code for identifying a first set of accessibility guidelines based on the accessibility standard and the level of conformance;
• a program code for identifying a set of elements present in the webpage;
• a program code for determining a second set of accessibility guidelines based upon the set of elements present in the webpage and a set of common guidelines applicable to all webpages of the web application, wherein the second set of accessibility guidelines is a subset of the first set of accessibility guidelines;
• a program code for identifying a number of occurrences of an element from the set of elements present in the webpage;
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• a program code for determining by an optimization engine a time required for testing the web page using different combinations of testing tools based on the second set of accessibility guidelines, the level of conformance, and the number of occurrences of the element of each type in the webpage;
• a program code for performing rule based analysis on the time required for testing the web page using different combination of testing tools to determine a combination of accessibility testing tools to be used for accessibility testing of the web application.