Validating accessibility of web systems with the help of user interaction

• Grant number: 13/05891-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2013
• End date: April 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computing Methodologies and Techniques
• Principal Investigator: Renata Pontin de Mattos Fortes
• Grantee: Vinício Serenato Meira
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research proposes the development of an automatic plug-in, that captures a log of user interaction with a Web system registering the URLs and submitting them to the accessibility assessment tools. At the end of a set of user interactions, the developers (software engineering) can get a general report of the evaluation and the possible accessibility barriers in each of the pages visited by the user. The challenge of this work is to contribute to web developers to verify Web accessibility more efficiently, providing a system within the principles of accessibility advocated by federal accessibility law (Law no. 10,098, of December 19, 2000), which establishes general standards and criteria for the promotion of accessibility for persons with disabilities or reduced mobility. (AU)