Universal Design of Mobile Apps: Making Weather Information Accessible

Walker, Bruce N.; Tomlinson, Brianna J.; Schuett, Jonathan H.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-58706-6_9

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“…In this scenario, Quispe et al (2020) investigated the prioritization of mobile accessibility guidelines extracted from e-MAG (the Brazilian Government Accessibility Model) to help dealing with limited resources while also addressing accessibility. Walker et al (2017) evaluated several weather apps and their usability/accessibility for blind and sighted users: as a result, they discovered that most of the considered apps were not designed to be universally accessible. Al-Subaihin et al (2013) reported that, if appropriately used, structural HTML elements can make the functionality of TalkBack and VoiceOver similar in mobile web apps and native applications.…”

Section: Accessibility: State Of the Artmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the recent past, empirical investigations have been conducted to study how developers discuss the matter on StackOverflow (Vendome et al 2019) and how existing accessibility features support users with disabilities (Kocieliński and Brzostek-Pawłowska 2013;Walker et al 2017). Nevertheless, there is still a notable lack of knowledge on the way developers approach the problem of accessibility and whether they implement the available guidelines to develop accessible applications.…”

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The making of accessible Android applications: an empirical study on the state of the practice

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Nowadays, mobile applications represent the principal means to enable human interaction. Being so pervasive, these applications should be made usable for all users: accessibility collects the guidelines that developers should follow to include features allowing users with disabilities (e.g., visual impairments) to better interact with an application. While research in this field is gaining interest, there is still a notable lack of knowledge on how developers practically deal with the problem: (i) whether they are aware and take accessibility guidelines into account when developing apps, (ii) which guidelines are harder for them to implement, and (iii) which tools they use to be supported in this task. To bridge the gap of knowledge on the state of the practice concerning the accessibility of mobile applications, we adopt a mixed-method research approach with a twofold goal. We aim to (i) verify how accessibility guidelines are implemented in mobile applications through a coding strategy and (ii) survey mobile developers on the issues and challenges of dealing with accessibility in practice. The key results of the study show that most accessibility guidelines are ignored when developing mobile apps. This behavior is mainly due to the lack of developers’ awareness of accessibility concerns and the lack of tools to support them during the development.

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The making of accessible Android applications: an empirical study on the state of the practice

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“…In the recent past, empirical investigations have been conducted to study how developers discuss the matter on Stack-Overflow [9] and how existing accessibility features support users with disabilities [4], [11]. Despite the recent advances in the field, there is still a notable lack of knowledge on the way developers approach the problem of accessibility and whether they implement the available guidelines to develop accessible applications.…”

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The Making of Accessible Android Applications: An Empirical Study on the State of the Practice

Gregorio

Nucci

Palomba

et al. 2020

2020 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)

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Context. Nowadays, mobile applications represent the principal means to enable human interaction. Being so pervasive, these applications should be made usable for all users: accessibility collects the guidelines that developers should follow to include features allowing users with disabilities (e.g., visual impairments) to better interact with an application. Problem. While research in this field is gaining interest, there is still a notable lack of knowledge on how developers practically deal with the problem: (i) whether they are aware and take accessibility guidelines into account when developing apps, (ii) which guidelines are harder for them to implement, and (iii) which tools they use to be supported in this task. Objective. To bridge the gap of knowledge on the state of the practice concerning the accessibility of mobile applications. Method. Adopting a mixed-method research approach, we aim to (i) verify how accessibility guidelines are implemented in mobile applications through a coding strategy and (ii) survey mobile developers on the issues and challenges of dealing with accessibility in practice. Limitations. Threats are represented by the size of the app sample and the number of answers to our survey study.

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How accessibility affects other quality attributes of software? A case study of GitHub

Zhao,

Gong,

Yang

et al. 2024

Science of Computer Programming

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Universal Design of Mobile Apps: Making Weather Information Accessible

Cited by 8 publications

References 9 publications

The making of accessible Android applications: an empirical study on the state of the practice

The making of accessible Android applications: an empirical study on the state of the practice

The Making of Accessible Android Applications: An Empirical Study on the State of the Practice

How accessibility affects other quality attributes of software? A case study of GitHub

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