Accessibility in Software Engineering: Pursuing the Mainstream from a Classroom

Silva, João; Gonçalves, Ramiro; Martins, José; Branco, Frederico; Pereira, António

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Accessibility in Software Engineering: Pursuing the Mainstream from a Classroom

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dc.contributor.author	Silva, João
dc.contributor.author	Gonçalves, Ramiro
dc.contributor.author	Martins, José
dc.contributor.author	Branco, Frederico
dc.contributor.author	Pereira, António
dc.date.accessioned	2025-08-26T08:29:30Z
dc.date.available	2025-08-26T08:29:30Z
dc.date.issued	2018
dc.description.abstract	Though equal access to all digital devices, content and applications should be ensured by default in the Digital Age, reality has yet to match this ideal, despite the numerous efforts to raise awareness of the problem. For the visually impaired, the existence of e-accessibility issues represents a barrier that, in the majority of situations, cannot be overcome. Nevertheless, this group of individuals still insists on using digital devices, to carry out tasks from their daily lives, such as reading and writing e-mails, reading news and weather websites, and using social networks. This assumption has been validated through a survey completed by 29 blind or partially sighted individuals. Considering that the lack of depth of knowledge in developers constitutes one of the most significant constraints to the development of accessibility software and digital content, the proposal for “slide 0” to be included as an educational resource, when developers are learning how to engineer software, is discussed later in the paper. This contribution, if precisely focused on the various types of software projects, would represent a novel addition to the existing scientific literature, but also a comprehensive aid to the inclusion of e-accessibility when lecturing experts on software engineering.	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Silva, J., Gonçalves, R., Martins, J., Branco, F., Pereira, A. (2018). Accessibility in Software Engineering: Pursuing the Mainstream from a Classroom. In: Zaphiris, P., Ioannou, A. (eds) Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Learning and Teaching. LCT 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10925. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91152-6_39
dc.identifier.doi	10.1007/978-3-319-91152-6_39
dc.identifier.isbn	9783319911519
dc.identifier.isbn	9783319911526
dc.identifier.issn	0302-9743
dc.identifier.issn	1611-3349
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/13903
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.peerreviewed	yes
dc.publisher	Springer International Publishing
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dc.relation.ispartof	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject	Graphical user interface
dc.subject	Software
dc.subject	Digital accessibility
dc.subject	Web accessibility
dc.subject	Software accessibility
dc.subject	Software engineering
dc.title	Accessibility in Software Engineering: Pursuing the Mainstream from a Classroom	eng
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