Implementing Recommendations From Web Accessibility Guidelines

Abstract

The findings may encourage more practitioners to implement WCAG 2.0 for the benefit of users with disabilities and nondisabled users.

Integration of accessibility design patterns with the software implementation process of ISO/IEC 29110

“…The findings are in line with previous work that indicated positive effects of complying with WCAG to improve the level of accessibility. 6,8,52 Those previous studies found also that both nondisabled and disabled users would benefit from higher accessibility levels, so this is also expected (although not explored here) for our web application. Moreover, it is worth noting that principles 2 and 6 of SPI Manifesto 53 can be distinguished in the proposed software process.…”

“…with visual impairments, it would be interesting in future research to compare effects of accessibility design patterns on both nondisabled users and users with visual impairments rather than focusing on disabled users alone. This comparison will allow us to achieve a deeper understanding of the co-relation between accessibility and usability as suggested by Schmutz et al 8 Finally, future research should include an extensive validation of the four proposed accessibility design patterns with experts and more users before publishing them in an online software patterns library.…”

“…and detailed guidelines that exist since many years, the application of WCAG, which is the most widely used standard among researchers and practitioners, in practice is still rare. 6,8 According to Schmutz et al,8 in recent studies, more than 95% of websites investigated were classified as not accessible, which means that the specific needs of people with different forms of visual disabilities, including blindness, are not sufficiently considered. 9 Despite the fact that there are a large percentage of software companies classified as very small entities (VSEs), relatively few studies have focused on the actual processes that they are using.…”

Extending Tangible Interactive Interfaces for Education: A System for Learning Arabic Braille using an Interactive Braille Keypad

“…Any software should be accessible by normal users and those with special needs. Software accessibility is extremely important and will always be quite challenging for software designers, they need to ensure that people with disabilities can get full access to a system so they can interact, navigate, perceive, and understand it [11]. In order to achieve accessibility, software designers and developers take into consideration the fact that the ability to see, hear, interact with the system, read text or process information varies from user to user.…”

Análisis comparativo de guías para el desarrollo web accesible

“…En [22] se lleva a cabo un análisis comparativo de las diferentes normas de accesibilidad de Estados Unidos con las de la OCDE y las de la Unión Europea con el fin de observar qué pautas de accesibilidad se aplican para personas mayores. Mientras que en el artículo [23] se presenta un estudio en el que se busca identificar los efectos en usuarios sin discapacidades y con discapacidades al implementar las directrices de accesibilidad dentro de un sitio web.…”