A11YRepair: Bridging Web Accessibility Barriers via Knowledge-Enhanced Divide-and-Conquer Repair (opens in new tab)

Web accessibility (A11Y), which ensures web content is perceivable and usable for users with disabilities, is a critical requirement for modern web applications. Yet existing tooling overwhelmingly focuses on detecting A11Y violations rather than repairing them. Automated program repair (APR) techniques appear promising for this setting, but our study shows that state-of-the-art APR systems perform poorly when applied to real-world A11Y violatio...