Accessibility Assessment in Mobile Applications for Android

Acosta-Vargas, Patricia; Salvador-Ullauri, Luis; Jadán-Guerrero, Janio; Guevara, Cesar; Sánchez-Gordón, Sandra; Calle-Jimenez, Tania; Lara-Alvarez, Patricio; Medina, Ana; Nunes, Isabel L.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-20040-4_25

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“…Accessibility refers to universal access to the contest of a website [6]. Accessibility ensures equal easy access to information and provides standard guidelines to improve the quality of interaction.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This technique G183 specifies that "using a contrast ratio of 3:1 with surrounding text provides additional visual cues on focus for links or controls where color alone is used [26]." It includes the following test procedures (1) "locate all instances where color alone is used to convey information about the text"; (2) "check that the relative luminance of the color of the text differs from the relative luminance of surrounding text by a contrast ratio of at least 3:1"; (3) "check that pointing to the link causes a visual enhancement"; (4) "check that moving keyboard focus to the link causes a visual enhancement [25]. "…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This comparative environment forces the designers to improve customers' experience to retain them. The individuals wish to have more engaging and accessible applications [6]. However, the design community ignores accessibility guidelines because of a lack of awareness, low budget, and fewer resources to use assistive technologies.…”

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Automated Accessibility Evaluation of Mobile Applications on Initial Stages of Design and Development

Kashif

Faisal

Mahmood

2023

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The growth of users' reliance on smartphones increases as new features and functions are continuously added to these technologies. Accessibility is an essential characteristic of information architecture in interface design research. There is a need to focus on accessibility to minimize the efforts, cost, and time during mobile application design and development. Most of the applications available on the App/Play Store lack the accessibility guidelines during development because implementing these aspects requires sufficient time and resources. Especially start-up companies normally ignore accessibility because it requires additional resources. However, perceivable design may increase profits, downloads, and reputation. Thus, the designer should ensure that their applications are perceivable and usable to satisfy the individuals. The underlying research intends to develop an automated accessibility analysis and design evaluation tool for mobile applications. Accordingly, the researchers developed a solution as a plugin for Figma. Further, the authors selected seven important techniques from the WCAG 2.1 success criterion. Finally, the proposed solution evaluates the designed screen (frame) and generates results in the report form. The proposed automated solution based on the success criterion helps the application's developers and is also useful for related stakeholders by filling the gap in the existing design related tools.

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Automated Accessibility Evaluation of Mobile Applications on Initial Stages of Design and Development

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Mahmood

2023

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“…Our previous studies by the authors [21,22] refer to a random sample of mobile applications evaluated with the accessibility considerations proposed in WCAG 2.1. Another previous study by the authors [23] proposes a heuristic method based on Brajnik's barrier walk [24].…”

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Towards Accessibility and Inclusion of Native Mobile Applications Available for Ecuador in Google Play Store

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This article aims to evaluate the level of compliance with the accessibility requirements of the most popular native Android mobile applications, for which a sample of 50 Google Play Store applications available in Ecuador was taken. A five-phase method using the Accessibility Scanner tool was used to evaluate the apps. The results revealed that 47.5% are related to problems with tactile orientation, followed by the labeling of elements with 28.2%, and text contrast with 9.2%. The highest number of barriers found in the evaluation of mobile applications corresponds to the principle of operability with 53.9%. This study reveals that, although social networks are widely used, they have 28.7% of accessibility problems. Basing accessibility analysis exclusively on an automatic tool is very limited since it neither detects all errors nor are the errors they detect accurate. However, we suggest complementing the automatic review evaluations with a manual method based on heuristics to ensure an adequate level of accessibility in mobile apps. In addition, we recommend using this study as a starting point to create a software tool using WCAG 2.1 based on artificial intelligence algorithms to help developers evaluate accessibility in mobile apps.

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“…; ALSHAYBAN; AHMED;MALEK, 2020;ACOSTA-VARGAS et al, 2020). O mesmo fenômeno tem sido observado em aplicações web e, por isso, diversos estudos foram conduzidos para entender as razões que explicam a falta de acessibilidade observada.…”

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Uma investigação sobre aspectos de acessibilidade de aplicativos móveis abordados por usuários nas avaliações publicadas na Google Play Store

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Accessibility Assessment in Mobile Applications for Android

Cited by 25 publications

References 7 publications

Automated Accessibility Evaluation of Mobile Applications on Initial Stages of Design and Development

Automated Accessibility Evaluation of Mobile Applications on Initial Stages of Design and Development

Towards Accessibility and Inclusion of Native Mobile Applications Available for Ecuador in Google Play Store

Uma investigação sobre aspectos de acessibilidade de aplicativos móveis abordados por usuários nas avaliações publicadas na Google Play Store

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