Comparing accessibility evaluation and usability evaluation in HagáQuê

Abstract

Usability and accessibility are two attributes very important in software design nowadays and, in general, are evaluated separately. On one hand, usability evaluation methods alone can't answer whether software is accessible to all kind of users. On the other hand, an accessibility evaluation can say little about software usability. However, it seems that usability and accessibility evaluation methods have some points in common. The aim of this article is to compare and discuss the similarities and differences between the results of accessibility and usability evaluations in HagáQuê, a comic book editor software for pedagogical usage.

Heuristic evaluation on Augmented Reality courseware for the deaf

“…The interface design questionnaire was adopted from the Nielsen Usability Heuristics (NUH) [30]. Others work for previous researchers had also been referred to, such as [31], [34]. The instructional design questionnaire was adopted from Educational Design Heuristic (EDH) [42].…”

“…Although there are many sets of expert assessments, in this study, we have adopted a set of expert assessment by Nielsen [30]. This is because it is more popular, cheaper, faster, and relatively easier to learn compared to other sets of expert ratings [31], [32].…”

Heuristic evaluation for Virtual Museum on smartphone

“…It involves asking from some evaluators with a variety of experience in designing or using software applications. The Heuristic Evaluation (HE) still is used because this method is cheaper, more popular and performs quickly without involving end users [16], [17]. In this HE, the evaluators try to evaluate the interface design against a set of checklist.…”