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IJSTR >> Volume 9 - Issue 12, December 2020 Edition



International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research  
International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research

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ISSN 2277-8616



Comparative Analysis Of WCAG 2.0 And WCAG 2.1 Based On The Accessibility Evaluation Of Pakistan’s Educational And Government Websites

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AUTHOR(S)

Muhammad Asif, Dr. Muhammad Sohail Khan, Faisal Abrar

 

KEYWORDS

WCAG 2.0, WCAG 2.1, XXS, CSRF, LFI, CNNVD, HTML, SQL, Vulnerabilities, EDU, GOV, web content, accessibility guidelines.

 

ABSTRACT

Website vulnerabilities are a major cause of security breaches in critical websites i.e. Government & Educational websites. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) provides a way to assess the level of vulnerability of a website in terms of various accessibility issues left un-noticed by website designers and developers. WCAG 2.1 is the latest version of accessibility guidelines for website vulnerability assessment which was preceded by WCAG 2.0. This paper provides a comparative analysis of WCAG 2.0 and WCAG 2.1 based on vulnerability assessment of Pakistan’s educational and government websites. The study also investigates how effective WCAG 2.1 is with respect to WCAG 2.0. A total of 118 Pakistani Educational and Government websites have been examined for vulnerabilities based on both versions of the guidelines. Data gathered from both assessments was then utilized for comparative analysis and also visualizes via graphs to clearly understand the effectiveness of WCAG 2.1. The overall results show that WCAG 2.1 is more critical in identifying various types of vulnerabilities in websites.

 

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