NDLI: Validation of Toolkits for developing third-generation Android accessible mobile applications

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Gemou, Maria Montalva Colomer, Juan Bautista Cabrera Umpierrez, Maria Fernanda Rios, Silvia Arredondo, Maria Teresa Bekiaris, Evangelos
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	This manuscript presents the results of the trials that have been realized with student developers in the context of the AEGIS Integrated Project of the 7th European Framework. The aim was to evaluate the added value and the expected impact of two open-source toolkits that have been developed within AEGIS, aiming to support developers in the creation of accessible mobile applications, namely the Android Accessibility Designer Toolkit and the Accessibility Advisor tool. Furthermore, this evaluation process allowed collecting comments for further optimization of the tools before their final release. Evaluation concerned the assessment of the tools themselves by student developers participating in the trials, but also of the accessible applications that student developers were requested to develop with these tools, which were then provided to expert low-vision users for further assessment of their accessibility. Developers were equally distributed into two groups: one Control Group and one Experimental Group. Developers from both groups were given the same exercise and had to meet the same requirements. The Experimental Group tried the AEGIS toolkits for their developments, whereas the Control Group developers freely chose other, non-AEGIS tools. Results showed that 18 % total development time was saved when AEGIS tools were used, and that these developer tools have a big potential to help developers create easily accessible applications.
Starting Page	101
Ending Page	127
Page Count	27
File Format	PDF
ISSN	16155289
Journal	Universal Access in the Information Society
Volume Number	15
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	16155297
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher Date	2014-08-31
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Accessibility Developer tools Third generation Evaluation Android OS User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction Computer Communication Networks Information Storage and Retrieval Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet) Computers and Society IT in Business
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Networks and Communications Information Systems Human-Computer Interaction Software

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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