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Accessibility Fix: Measuring HTML Repair Without Content Loss

Pooria Arab · orcid 0009-0005-9964-6841 · 2026-10-29 · Published on Zenodo

abstract

Accessibility Fix measures whether an HTML repair corrects injected defects while retaining page content. We study 40 public synthetic pages using scripted controls and a simulated population sweep. The reference pages receive full credit on every task; unchanged pages, empty answers, and refusals receive none. A template fixer earns mean 0.788 [0.713, 0.869] with a stratified bootstrap interval. The grader rejects reference pages modified with display:none, but accepts the same references modified with clip-path concealment. A simulated gate ablation measures the credit retained when the automatic-zero gate is removed. These experiments characterize a static repair score, not complete accessibility, user benefit, or learned-model ability. No learned model or human study is included.

benchmark: benchmark-accessibility-fix. submitted to: none recorded.

citation

Arab, Pooria (2026). Accessibility Fix: Measuring HTML Repair Without Content Loss. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23752382

bibtex

@misc{accessibility-fix,
  author = {Arab, Pooria},
  title = {Accessibility Fix: Measuring HTML Repair Without Content Loss},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23752382},
  url = {https://pooriaarab.com/papers/accessibility-fix},
}

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