TY - GEN
T1 - Accessibility assessment in mobile applications for android
AU - Acosta-Vargas, Patricia
AU - Salvador-Ullauri, Luis
AU - Jadán-Guerrero, Janio
AU - Guevara, César
AU - Sanchez-Gordon, Sandra
AU - Calle-Jimenez, Tania
AU - Lara-Alvarez, Patricio
AU - Medina, Ana
AU - Nunes, Isabel L.
N1 - The authors thank UDLA for funding this study through the project “FGE.PAV.18.10.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - At present, the lack of adequate methods to test whether a mobile application is accessible has become a major challenge for accessibility experts. This study was applied to ten mobile applications, the most popular according to PCMAG. We propose to use the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 through manual review and automatic review with the Google Play Store Accessibility Scanner validator for the Android. The evaluation results of the mobile applications indicate that the applications are not accessible because they do not comply with the minimum required level proposed by WCAG 2.1. The research proposes suggestions to improve and raise awareness among the designers of mobile applications, in such a way that more inclusive mobile applications accessible to all types of users are built.
AB - At present, the lack of adequate methods to test whether a mobile application is accessible has become a major challenge for accessibility experts. This study was applied to ten mobile applications, the most popular according to PCMAG. We propose to use the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 through manual review and automatic review with the Google Play Store Accessibility Scanner validator for the Android. The evaluation results of the mobile applications indicate that the applications are not accessible because they do not comply with the minimum required level proposed by WCAG 2.1. The research proposes suggestions to improve and raise awareness among the designers of mobile applications, in such a way that more inclusive mobile applications accessible to all types of users are built.
KW - Accessibility
KW - Accessibility Scanner
KW - Assessment
KW - Mobile applications
KW - WCAG 2.1
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85067362341
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-20040-4_25
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-20040-4_25
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85067362341
SN - 978-3-030-20039-8
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 279
EP - 288
BT - Advances in Human Factors and Systems Interaction - Proceedings of the AHFE 2019 International Conference on Human Factors and Systems Interaction
A2 - Nunes, Isabel L.
PB - Springer Verlag
CY - Cham
T2 - AHFE International Conference on Human Factors and Systems Interaction, 2019
Y2 - 24 July 2019 through 28 July 2019
ER -