Accessible software development: a conceptual model proposal

Silva, João Sousa e; Gonçalves, Ramiro; Branco, Frederico; Au‑Yong‑Oliveira, Manuel; Martins, José; Pereira, António

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Accessible software development: a conceptual model proposal

2019-07-28Journal article

datacite.subject.fos	Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática
datacite.subject.sdg	09:Indústria, Inovação e Infraestruturas
dc.contributor.author	Silva, João Sousa e
dc.contributor.author	Gonçalves, Ramiro
dc.contributor.author	Branco, Frederico
dc.contributor.author	Au‑Yong‑Oliveira, Manuel
dc.contributor.author	Martins, José
dc.contributor.author	Pereira, António
dc.date.accessioned	2025-11-24T16:03:51Z
dc.date.available	2025-11-24T16:03:51Z
dc.date.issued	2019-07-28
dc.description.abstract	Equal access to all software and digital content should be a reality in the Digital Era. This argument is something defended both by existing regulations, norms and standards, and also business organizations and governments. Despite this acknowledgement, the reality is still far from the desired equality. For certain groups of disabled or impaired citizens, such as the visually impaired, the existence of e-accessibility compliance represents an opportunity to integrate, in a more simple and straightforward manner, their societies. Despite the existing poor results on e-accessibility compliance, the mentioned citizens insist on using digital devices in their daily lives. Even though, in the last decade, multiple standards and regulations have been published towards indicating how to develop accessible digital user interfaces, there are still two major issues surrounding its implementation: the complexity and disparity of the documents containing the abovementioned norms, and also the lack of e-accessibility know-how by software experts. With this in mind, a proposal for an accessible software development model that encompasses e-accessibility incorporation as one of the development process activities has been presented. This model might represent a very interesting support tool for software development organizations and a novel resource for learning and training institutions to be able to improve their computer science and informatics students’ skills on e-accessibility.	eng
dc.description.sponsorship	This work was supported by national funds through the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the Project UID/CEC/04524/2016. This work was financed by the ERDF—European Regional Development Fund through the Operational Program for Competitiveness and Internationalization—COMPETE 2020 within Project (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006961), and by National Funds through the Portuguese funding agency, FCT— Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia as part of Project (UID/EEA/50014/2013).
dc.identifier.citation	Silva, João Sousa e; Gonçalves, Ramiro Manuel Ramos Moreira; Branco, Frederico; Pereira, António; Au-Yong-Oliveira, Manuel; Martins, José (2019). Accessible software development: a conceptual model proposal. Universal Access in the Information Society. ISSN 1615-5289. 18:3, p. 703-716
dc.identifier.doi	10.1007/s10209-019-00688-5
dc.identifier.issn	1615-5289
dc.identifier.issn	1615-5297
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/14720
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.peerreviewed	yes
dc.publisher	Springer Science and Business Media
dc.relation	UID/EEA/50014/2013
dc.relation	UID/CEC/04524/2016
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dc.relation.ispartof	Universal Access in the Information Society
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Software engineering
dc.subject	Software accessibility
dc.subject	Software development model
dc.subject	Accessible software
dc.title	Accessible software development: a conceptual model proposal	eng
dc.type	journal article
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