Computer science accessibility for students with visual disabilities

Francioni, Joan M.; Smith, Ann C.

doi:10.1145/563340.563372

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“…In [24] an integrated framework was developed, named Speak Java environment that enables the user to know the structure and semantics of voice via a Java program such as: package name, classes, interfaces, variables, methods, etc. The system uses as a front-end Java Speech Markup Language (JSML) NetBeans program to take advantage of the service debugging and the JASPI for speech recognition and synthesizer.…”

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VoiceToModel

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Araújo

Wanderley

2015

Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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Requirements are typically modelled using some graphical notation with the aid of CASE tools. However, these tools make this activity exclusive to requirements engineers and stakeholders with no accessibility problems, but disabled professionals often have accessibility problems to use tools to build requirements models. Also, accessibility problems can happen to stakeholders in general in a particular context where the use of voice is more convenient (e.g., in a public transport). In this paper, the VoiceToModel framework is proposed to improve the accessibility of the requirements process by effectively integrating a requirements engineer or stakeholder with disabilities during requirements modelling. Through speech recognition, the engineer should be capable of voicing the requirements, which are automatically used to generate requirements models, more specifically goal-oriented models, object models and feature models. Also, the automated framework generates requirements models from speech recognition by firstly defining a grammar where we have the commands to create and modify a model. These commands return a feedback via voice. We show the applicability of the framework through an example and discuss the results of an experiment with 14 participants, including 2 blind people.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

VoiceToModel

Soares

Araújo

Wanderley

2015

Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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“…Bigham et al (2006) studied how images can be accessible and Saito et al (2006) proposes a method to transform existing Flash content into XML structures. Edwards et al (2006) tried to create mathematics accessible to blind students and Francioni & Smith (2002) proposed a framework for the accessibility of computer science lessons for visually impaired students. Tsonos & Kouroupetroglou (2008) proposed recently a Design-for-All approach for accessible documents on the board and during the presentations in the classroom.…”

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Multimodal Accessibility of Documents

Tsonos¹

2008

Advances in Human Computer Interaction

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“…Researchers at St. Mary's University and Winona State University have been collaborating on a project to investigate how the computing curriculum can be made more accessible to students with visual impairments, through the use of commercial assistive technology and through the development of a tool to support Java programming [4,10]. Researchers at Curtin University have worked with Cisco Systems to develop an accessible version of the Cisco Network Academy Program's e-learning environment [8].…”

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Introducing Accessibility Requirements through External Stakeholder Utilization in an Undergraduate Requirements Engineering Course

Ludi

2007

29th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'07)

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Undergraduate software engineering courses aim to prepare students to deliver software in a variety of domains. The manner in which these courses are conducted varies, though team projects with real or imaginary stakeholders are common. While the key course concepts vary from the entire lifecycle to specific aspects of design, concepts like accessibility are rare.This paper will present a study of team projects in a requirements engineering course. One group of students conducted projects with accessibility requirements while another group of students delivered projects without accessibility requirements.The course content was the same, including discussion of accessibility.To support the understanding of accessibility, stakeholders with disabilities were included in the requirements engineering process. Both teams benefited from the experience as indirect knowledge acquisition occurred. Students from a previous offering of the course, with no external stakeholder interaction, demonstrated lower levels of accessibility understanding.

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Computer science accessibility for students with visual disabilities

Cited by 20 publications

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Introducing Accessibility Requirements through External Stakeholder Utilization in an Undergraduate Requirements Engineering Course

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