imergo: Supporting Accessibility and Web Standards to Meet the Needs of the Industry via Process-Oriented Software Tools

Mohamad, Yehya; Stegemann, Dirk; Koch, Johannes; Velasco, Carlos A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-27817-7_47

Cited by 10 publications

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“…Significant work has been dedicated to developing automated accessibility evaluation tools, such as Total Validator [4], CynthiaSays [5], iMergo [6] and others. Such automated evaluation tools can help developers detect many problems that otherwise would be very tedious to check.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Framework to Facilitate the Implementation of Technical Aspects of Web Accessibility

Oliveira

Freire

Paiva

et al. 2014

Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design for All and Accessibility Practice

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Abstract. The expansion of the internet has become apparent in recent years, both by the number of users, and by the number of services available on the network. Considering such an expansion it is essential that the content be accessible to all people, regardless their abilities or different disabilities. Thus, it is necessary that IT professionals dedicate time and effort in planning accessible online solutions. In this paper, we proposed the Homero framework in order to support the development of accessible interface layer of web applications. Developed using the PHP language, the Homero framework automates the generation of web pages in accordance with guidelines defined in Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. In order to provide evidence of the quality of web applications generated using the framework, an empirical study was conducted. The results showed the effectiveness of Homero to assist the development of accessible web applications, achieving level AAA in automatically detectable WCAG 2.0 success criteria.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Framework to Facilitate the Implementation of Technical Aspects of Web Accessibility

Oliveira

Freire

Paiva

et al. 2014

Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design for All and Accessibility Practice

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“…It was decided to accept keyboard support as sufficient if the time to complete a set of standard tasks by keyboard only does not exceed 1.5 times 6 the time required to complete these standard tasks by mouse and keyboard. 6 The value 1.5 was based on an analysis of typical user roles for the CRM web application. It was evident that if keyboard navigation is more than 1.5 times slower than mouse navigation, then it was unlikely that a user relying on keyboard navigation would be able to handle the typical workload without major problems.…”

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“…508 [4] or WCAG 1.0 [5]. A number of automatic check tools for web pages can be used (for example [6][7][8]). Automatic checking against guidelines is a very efficient method to detect accessibility problems in web units, but it is restricted to checkpoints which do not require human judgement.…”

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confidence: 99%

GOMS analysis as a tool to investigate the usability of web units for disabled users

Schrepp

2009

Univ Access Inf Soc

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Guideline compliance is a necessary but not sufficient condition to guarantee the usability of web units by disabled users, since efficiency-related issues can be as exclusive for disabled users as violations to basic guidelines. This paper shows that Goals, Operators, Methods and Selection rules (GOMS) analysis, which is an established method in user interface design, can be adapted to evaluate the efficiency of interface designs for disabled users. As examples, several GOMS models for the interaction behavior of disabled users with web units are described, showing how such models can be used to answer concrete accessibility-related questions. Advantages and limitations of GOMS analysis are also discussed.

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“…Our tool addresses this issue allowing developers to visualize the reports without performing again the evaluation process because the reports are stored in external XML files. Imergo [16] is an another interesting contribution in the area of tools for accessibility, which aims to provide integrated support for Content Management Systems and engineered support for multiple guidelines. In our tool we provide a different solution to such issue based on the definition of an abstract language for guidelines and we also want to provide support for automatic repair.…”

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Flexible tool support for accessibility evaluation

Leporini

Paternò

Scorcia

2006

Interacting with Computers

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The increasing need to check Web site accessibility has stimulated interest in tools to aid the various activities involved. While some tools for this purpose already exist, we believe that there is a demand for making their support more flexible. In particular, there is often a need for validation of multiple sets of guidelines, repairing Web pages and providing better reports for the evaluators. In this paper, we discuss such issues and how we have addressed them in the design of MAGENTA, our new tool for supporting inspection-based evaluation of accessibility and usability guidelines.

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imergo: Supporting Accessibility and Web Standards to Meet the Needs of the Industry via Process-Oriented Software Tools

Cited by 10 publications

References 2 publications

A Framework to Facilitate the Implementation of Technical Aspects of Web Accessibility

A Framework to Facilitate the Implementation of Technical Aspects of Web Accessibility

GOMS analysis as a tool to investigate the usability of web units for disabled users

Flexible tool support for accessibility evaluation

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