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  • Accessibility at Early Stages: Insights from the Designer Perspective

    Adriana Martín, Alejandra Cechich, Gustavo Rossi · 2011 · Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

    This paper addresses a fundamental imbalance in web accessibility practice: while many tools exist to help developers evaluate accessibility after implementation, very few support designers in building accessibility into web applications from the start. The authors propose a…

    accessible design · software engineering · aspect-oriented design · web engineering · model-driven development

  • Accessible Icon Design in Enterprise Applications

    Eric Stilan, Amy Chen, Lulit Bezuayehu · 2011 · Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

    This paper from Oracle's design team presents case studies of designing accessible icons for enterprise software, focusing on the challenge of conveying complex meanings — conditional status, severity levels, data trends — within 16x16 pixel icons without relying on color as the…

    visual design · color contrast · color blindness · accessible design · user interface design

  • Spindex (Speech Index) Improves Auditory Menu Acceptance and Navigation Performance

    Myounghoon Jeon, Bruce N. Walker · 2011 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

    This paper introduces the "spindex" (speech index), a novel auditory cue designed to improve navigation through spoken menus on mobile devices. The spindex works by pronouncing the first letter of each menu item before the full text-to-speech (TTS) rendering—analogous to the…

    auditory interfaces · mobile accessibility · text-to-speech · screen readers · user interface design

  • Developing Accessible TV Applications

    José Coelho, Carlos Duarte, Pradipta Biswas, Patrick Langdon · 2011 · The Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

    This paper describes the GUIDE (Gentle User Interfaces for Elderly People) framework for developing accessible TV applications through multimodal interaction, user interface adaptation, and impairment simulation. The research combines a survey of 46 elderly participants (ages…

    aging · multimedia accessibility · multimodal interaction · adaptive systems · personalization

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