Model-driven development of accessible software: a systematic literature review

Abstract

Every day, humanity is witnessing digital transformation, which involves implementing digital technologies to transform business processes and services from non-digital to digital. The success of this transformation is measured by the Digital Quality of Life (DQL) Index, and VPN service provider Surfshark publishes the study results. As Index DQL grows, so does the number of users because digital accessibility is becoming more popular daily. The increase in digital information, the continuous development of IT, and the transition of life online require software to be accessible to people with disabilities. There is a question about the correlation between software availability level and Index DQL. This research is dedicated to the solution to this issue. Ten European countries were randomly selected, and automated testing of the accessibility of government websites was carried out using the following tools: Tenon, Wave, and SiteImprove. The term Web application accessibility index was defined. For the first time, an analysis of the correspondence between Index DQL indicators and the web application accessibility index was carried out. Even though the EU countries and their partner states are constantly working to improve conditions for people with disabilities, a high DQL Index does not indicate a high level of accessibility of state websites, which was confirmed by the study.

NEFBDAA — .NET Environment for Building Dynamic Angular Applications

“…Web applications are built upon the SPA approach, where pages interact with the web browser by dynamically rewriting the current content with new data instead of reloading the whole page [8,27,28]. Moreover, most available solutions only focus on UI without connecting with business logic [28]. Some come with a tool that supports Rapid Application Development (RAD).…”

“…Still, it is dedicated to Python and oriented with a template design system to render them, so it does not face the same issues as SPA. No solution provides the automated functionality of sophisticated analysis with data filtering based on custom conditions with automatically generated filter forms [28,48] and data table rendering. Besides GUI enhancements, NEFBDAA gives pre-configured and built upon the best design patterns environment for building web-based applications utilizing the SPA approach.…”

The Interoperability Challenge: Building a Model-Driven Digital Thread Platform for CPS

“…In this context, we see the evolution of meta-programming from the classic and traditional UML-driven community and mentality, that we see still prevail in recent surveys [46], towards the more radical approach promoted by Steffen et al via Language Driven Engineering [54] and purpose driven collaboration using purpose specific languages (PSLs) [64]. This is a powerful, yet still niche, area of research and adoption.…”

Integration of micro-services as components in modeling environments for low code development

“…Most domain specific languages today are at the coding level and do not leverage a model driven approach at the platform level. The rise in re-usability and maintainability demands paved the path to low code development environments and gained the attention of the developer's community [9]. The construction of meta-models behind these DSLs is challenging, since they must capture all the domain knowledge, i.e.…”