TY - GEN
T1 - Web accessibility for visually impaired people
T2 - 1st International Workshop on Usability- and Accessibility-Focused Requirements Engineering, UsARE 2012, Held in Conjunction with 34th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2012, 2nd International Workshop, Usability- and Accessibility-Focused Requirements Engineering, UsARE 2014 and Held in Conjunction with International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2014
AU - Ferati, Mexhid
AU - Vogel, Bahtijar
AU - Kurti, Arianit
AU - Raufi, Bujar
AU - Astals, David Salvador
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Access to web content continues to be a challenge for the visually impaired, as the needs of such community are very diverse. The access is further hindered by the fact that designers continue to build websites non-compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). To better understand the needs of the visually impaired community, three workshops were organized with various stakeholders coming from three different countries. The results from the workshops suggest that one-solution-fits-all model is inadequate without considering the levels of visual impairment when providing customized web experience. A set of requirements devised from the workshops guided the process of building a middleware prototype. Using eight adaptation techniques, the prototype provides the required user experience based on users level of visual impairment. Preliminary evaluation of the middleware suggests that several adaptation techniques perform better with non-WCAG compliant websites compared to those being compliant.
AB - Access to web content continues to be a challenge for the visually impaired, as the needs of such community are very diverse. The access is further hindered by the fact that designers continue to build websites non-compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). To better understand the needs of the visually impaired community, three workshops were organized with various stakeholders coming from three different countries. The results from the workshops suggest that one-solution-fits-all model is inadequate without considering the levels of visual impairment when providing customized web experience. A set of requirements devised from the workshops guided the process of building a middleware prototype. Using eight adaptation techniques, the prototype provides the required user experience based on users level of visual impairment. Preliminary evaluation of the middleware suggests that several adaptation techniques perform better with non-WCAG compliant websites compared to those being compliant.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84988419146
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-45916-5_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-45916-5_6
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84988419146
SN - 9783319459158
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 79
EP - 96
BT - Usability- and Accessibility-Focused Requirements Engineering - 1st International Workshop, UsARE 2012, Held in Conjunction with ICSE 2012 and 2nd International Workshop, UsARE 2014, Held in Conjunction with RE 2014, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Seyff, Norbert
A2 - Ebert, Achim
A2 - Humayoun, Shah Rukh
A2 - Perini, Anna
A2 - Barbosa, Simone D.J.
A2 - Seyff, Norbert
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 25 August 2014 through 25 August 2014
ER -