Can We Improve App Accessibility with Advanced Development Methods?

Krainz, Elmar; Miesenberger, Klaus; Feiner, Johannes

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-94277-3_12

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“…Software Engineering plays an essential role in the process of developing accessible applications, as it is able to promote the integration between methodologies, techniques and specific accessibility activities throughout the software development [22]. With this, researchers have pointed out the importance of considering accessibility throughout the software life cycle [23,24,25].…”

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Support for Accessible Software Coding: Results of a Rapid Literature Review

Furukawa

Soares²,

Cagnin³

et al. 2023

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Due to difficulties faced by people with disabilities, it is necessary to provide all citizens with mechanisms to guarantee the accessibility of information and services offered through the internet. This study aims to identify which models and tools support developers in the software coding phase in order to meet accessibility requirements. The data obtained were extracted from the literature and were evaluated with professionals working with information technology. It was possible to conclude that taking accessibility into account throughout the software development cycle from the early stages, as well as having models and tools that help during the software coding process are essential to succeed in creating accessible products.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Support for Accessible Software Coding: Results of a Rapid Literature Review

Furukawa

Soares²,

Cagnin³

et al. 2023

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“…For instance, Sanchez et al [41] and Bai et al [42], [43] examine development practices in agile teams working on accessible software, with the goal of proposing a guideline for better agile practices. Krainz et al [44] investigates the impact of a model-driven approach to development on the accessibility of the created product. None of the aforementioned works, however, is concerned with developing an automated approach to test accessibility.…”

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Semantic Web Accessibility Testing via Hierarchical Visual Analysis

Bajammal

Mesbah

2021

2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

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Web accessibility, the design of web apps to be usable by users with disabilities, impacts millions of people around the globe. Although accessibility has traditionally been a marginal afterthought that is often ignored in many software products, it is increasingly becoming a legal requirement that must be satisfied. While some web accessibility testing tools exist, most only perform rudimentary syntactical checks that do not assess the more important high-level semantic aspects that users with disabilities rely on. Accordingly, assessing web accessibility has largely remained a laborious manual process requiring human input. In this paper, we propose an approach, called AXERAY, that infers semantic groupings of various regions of a web page and their semantic roles. We evaluate our approach on 30 real-world websites and assess the accuracy of semantic inference as well as the ability to detect accessibility failures. The results show that AXERAY achieves, on average, an F-measure of 87% for inferring semantic groupings, and is able to detect accessibility failures with 85% accuracy.

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“…Krainz et al [32][33][34] propose a MDD approach, in that a metamodel for the domain apps is created in Domain Specific Language (DSL) with accessibility requirements included, and use a set of tools to transform the metamodel into app source code. The outcome from this transformation process is an app prototype with accessibility features (for example, content description for integrated screen reader support or active voice output in selected parts of the app).…”

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Incorporating Accessibility Elements to the Software Engineering Process

Andrade

Branco

Cagnin

et al. 2018

Advances in Human-Computer Interaction

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The expansion of web is a phenomenon that brings several challenges in different segments of the society. Accessibility is one of these challenges and it is related to the digital inclusion and social welfare of the population. Thus, making accessible software available can contribute to solution of problems that currently exist in relation to access to information and services by all citizens. The purpose of this article is to present an approach that integrates accessibility to the Software Engineering process. We also present the Acero tool, which provides computational support to the proposed approach. Results were evaluated and we concluded that the use of the proposal reached the objectives, supporting different stages of the development process and contributing to obtain accessible software products.

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Can We Improve App Accessibility with Advanced Development Methods?

Cited by 9 publications

References 9 publications

Support for Accessible Software Coding: Results of a Rapid Literature Review

Support for Accessible Software Coding: Results of a Rapid Literature Review

Semantic Web Accessibility Testing via Hierarchical Visual Analysis

Incorporating Accessibility Elements to the Software Engineering Process

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