Examining the trend of published dissertation on web accessibility: A bibliometric analysis

Web accessibility becomes one of the important elements in web-related design. In line with its growing importance, considerable works have been published to examine various issues related to web accessibility. Despite various types of works have been made available, this paper observes the trend of dissertation works on web accessibility in the last five years (2013 to 2017). This study aims to offer insights into the physiognomies of the research on web accessibility, with a particular focus on higher institution. Authors employs bibliometric analysis to examine the thesis titles as indexed by Google Scholar as of February 2018. The dissertation titles that contain web accessibility related keywords have been obtained and analyzed. After the cleaning process, a total of 39 theses are available for further. This paper reports the analysis of thesis/dissertations published with respect to publication year, dissertation type, institutions name, field of research and text analysis of the thesis title. The results from this study is expected to offer insights on the trend of web accessibility studies, particularly the dissertation/thesis that have been published apart from offering potential direction for future research.