Paper Info
Title
An incremental approach for building accessible and usable web applications
Abstract
Building accessible Web applications is difficult, moreover considering the fact that they are constantly evolving. To make matters more critical, an application which conforms to the well-known W3C accessibility standards is not necessarily usable for handicapped persons. In fact, the user experience, when accessing a complex Web application, using for example screen readers, tends to be far from friendly. In this paper we present an approach to safely transform Web applications into usable and accessible ones. The approach is based on an adaptation of the well-known software refactoring technique. We show how to apply accessibility refactorings to improve usability in accessible applications, and how to make the process of obtaining this "new" application cost-effective, by adapting an agile development process.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/978-3-642-17616-6_49
WISE
Keywords
Field
DocType
accessibility refactorings,accessible web application,well-known software,agile development process,w3c accessibility standard,accessible application,example screen reader,complex web application,incremental approach,application cost-effective,web application,usable web application,cost effectiveness,web engineering,user experience,agile development
Web development,Web Accessibility Initiative,Web design,World Wide Web,Computer science,Web standards,Web engineering,Web modeling,Web service,Web accessibility,Database
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
6488
0302-9743
3-642-17615-1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.45
14
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nuria Medina-Medina17319.18
Juan Burella2252.36
Gustavo Rossi32141245.82
Julian Grigera415114.97
Esteban Robles Luna513811.32