Web accessibility and usability problems can make evaluation difficult for non-experts who may be unfamiliar with assistive technology. Developers often (i) lack easy access to the diversity of assistive technology employed by users, and (ii) are unaware of the different access patterns and browsing strategies that people familiar with a specific assistive technology tool might use. One way to ...

We propose a multisided platform approach that is user-based but seeks to provide an infrastructure that supports all stakeholders, making it easier for vendors to design, market and support access features, products, and services and that makes it easier for consumers to find, secure, and use access features, products and services, individually or mixed, on any device they encounter. The syste...

The current accessibility ecosystem that develops and delivers both assistive technologies and access features in mainstream technologies is not able to keep up, provide the diversity of solutions needed, nor reach more that a small portion of those who need them. To address this a large scale effort was proposed to provide an infrastructure that would allow the ecosystem to evolve into a quite...

P. Brunet B. A. Feigenbaum K. Harris C. Laws R. Schwerdtfeger L. Weiss New technology tends to be inaccessible to people with disabilities. Accessibility features are frequently added as the technology matures; doing so late in the cycle incurs significant costs. The initial omission of accessibility features often results from systems designers’ lack of insight into accessibility requirements....

Arguably the most significant milestone (so far) in the spoken language technology field was the appearance in November 2011 of Siri Apple’s voice-based ‘personal assistant and knowledge navigator’ for the iPhone. Siri brought the potential of spoken language technology to the attention of the wider general public, and speech finally became “mainstream”. This meant that ordinary people suddenly...

Developing accessible Websites is essential to enable disabled people to have access to content and day-to-day services. Although accessibility guidelines can help identify some accessibility problems, the evaluation of Websites by disabled users is the best method to identify real problems encountered by users. Such problems are not always identified by means of reviewing technical guidelines....

Subject of our work is to explore and analyze the referred relationships between the emerging ICT landscape in the European societal and economic context, and the development and provision of e-Accessibility, within a perspective of 10 years. Some core areas of concern we deal with are represented by the following questions: Which are the trends that may affect the future of e-Accessibility (in...