A Prototype VS Code Extension to Improve Web Accessible Development
Achieving web accessibility is essential to building inclusive digital experiences. However, accessibility issues are often identified only after a website has been fully developed, making them difficult to address. This paper introduces a Visual Studio Code plugin that integrates calls to a Large Language Model (LLM) to assist developers in identifying and resolving accessibility issues within the IDE, reducing accessibility defects that might otherwise reach the production environment.
Our evaluation shows promising results: the plugin effectively generates functioning fixes for accessibility issues when the errors are correctly detected. However, detecting errors using a generic prompt—designed for broad applicability across various code structures—remains challenging and limited in accuracy.
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14:00 - 15:30 | Session 3: Refactoring & AI, & Session 4: Plugins and applicationsIDE at 205 Chair(s): Danny Dig University of Colorado Boulder, JetBrains Research, Darya Rovdo JetBrains 14:00–14:45 — Session 3. Refactoring and AI. 14:45–15:30 — Session 4. Plugins and applications. | ||
14:00 15mTalk | LLM-Driven Code Refactoring: Opportunities and Limitations IDE Pre-print | ||
14:15 15mTalk | Trust Calibration in IDEs: Paving the Way for Widespread Adoption of AI Refactoring IDE Markus Borg CodeScene Pre-print | ||
14:30 15mTalk | IDE Native, Foundation Model Based Agents for Software Refactoring IDE Pre-print | ||
14:45 15mTalk | Using CognitIDE to Capture Developers’ Cognitive Load via Physiological Activity During Everyday Software Development Tasks IDE Fabian Stolp Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Charlotte Brandebusemeyer Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Franziska Hradilak Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Lara Kursawe Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Magnus Menger Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Franz Sauerwald Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Bert Arnrich Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam Pre-print | ||
15:00 15mTalk | A Prototype VS Code Extension to Improve Web Accessible Development IDE Elisa Calì Politecnico di Torino, Tommaso Fulcini Politecnico di Torino, Riccardo Coppola Politecnico di Torino, Lorenzo Laudadio Politecnico di Torino, Marco Torchiano Politecnico di Torino Pre-print | ||
15:15 15mTalk | A Plugin for Cross-Language Static Analysis for Vulnerability Detection in Android Applications IDE Kishanthan Thangarajah Centre for Software Excellence, Huawei Canada, Noble Saji Mathews University of Waterloo, Canada, Mei Nagappan University of Waterloo Pre-print |