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AO-WAD: A Generalized Approach for Accessible Design within the Development of Web-based Systems

Authors:
Adriana Martín
Viviana Saldaño
Gabriela Miranda
Gabriela Gaetán

Keywords: Web Accessibility; WE Approaches; UI Design; Aspect-Orientation.

Abstract:
Web Engineering (WE) methods have evolved to support different concerns during the development process of current Web-based systems, as context-awareness, Business-to-Business (B2B) process modeling, Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and live-regions or quality factors to improve users’ experience. Therefore, developers have conceptual tools to focus on these concerns in advance, but unfortunately, the situation is not the same to early accessibility design. In this paper we provide a briefly overview of our proposal, called Aspect-Oriented Web Accessibility Design (AO-WAD), and generalize its use within some of the best known WE approaches to provide accessibility support through Aspect-Orientation techniques. We embed AO-WAD into OOHDM, UWE and OOWS methods and propitiate an ease understanding through a motivating example.

Pages: 581 to 587

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: November 18, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-230-1

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 18, 2012 to November 23, 2012