Patent ID: 8260903

Claim:
A method for assessing the usability and accessibility of one or more websites, comprising: generating a customized checklist of accommodations corresponding to one or more accessibility metrics of one or more websites to be assessed, wherein the customized checklist of accommodations is generated from a complete checklist of accommodations corresponding to one or more accessibility metrics of multiple websites stored in a database, and further wherein the generated customized list of accommodations facilitates a user to select one or more accessibility profiles relevant for the one or more websites to be assessed and one or more Web 2.0 features relevant for the one or more websites to be assessed; mapping selected accessibility profiles to corresponding accommodations of the customized checklist of accommodations; mapping selected Web 2.0 features to corresponding accommodations of the customized checklist of accommodations; evaluating a degree of the selected one or more Web 2.0 features against the mapped accommodations for the one or more websites to be assessed; rendering one or more accommodations relevant for the selected one or more accessibility profiles based on the mapping and the evaluation; and assessing the one or more website based on the rendered accommodations.