101. An analysis on tools for accessibility evaluation in mobile applications
- Author
-
Walter Correia, Jonysberg P. Quintino, Fabio Q. B. da Silva, Marcelo Penha, Clauirton Siebra, Fabiana Florentin, André L. Santos, Marcelo Anjos, and Jefte Macedo
- Subjects
Service (systems architecture) ,business.industry ,Computer science ,Process (engineering) ,Visually impaired ,05 social sciences ,Requirements validation ,02 engineering and technology ,Espresso ,0502 economics and business ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,020201 artificial intelligence & image processing ,Code Validation ,Software engineering ,business ,050203 business & management - Abstract
This research aims at identifying if current code validation tools contemplate the requirements of a guideline for the development of accessible mobile applications, called GUAMA, which was specified by our team over 3 years of research with visually impaired individuals and whose final conception process is formalized in this paper. Then, several tools were analyzed and two of them were chosen for a deeper study: Lint and Espresso. The results showed that Lint and Espresso respectively contemplate 12 and 6 from the 48 GUAMA requirements. Thus, the unique use of such tools is not adequate to validate the range of requirements. These results have motivated the investigation of a new integrated service/process, which presents a higher coverage regarding the validation of accessibility requirements.
- Published
- 2018