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Evaluating the Accessibility of Adaptive TV Based Web Applications

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Abstract

The accessibility evaluation of Web applications has been gaining momentum in previous years. Several guidelines and systems are now available to assess the accessibility of a Web page. However, these guidelines have been show to be inadequate when assessing dynamic Web applications. Furthermore, when considering adaptive Web applications, another layer of dynamism is introduced, further complication the problem. This chapter presents a framework for accessibility evaluation of adaptive Web applications, expanding on previous work for evaluating dynamic Web applications. The framework will be described in the context of an evaluation of TV based Web applications, and the results will assist in the characterization of the accessibility of this particular field of Web applications.

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Acknowledgements

This work was funded by Fundao para a Cincia e Tecnologia (FCT) through the QualWeb national research project PTDC/EIA-EIA/105079/2008, the Multiannual Funding Programme, and POSC/EU; and by GUIDE Project – the European Unions Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under grant agreement n 24889.

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    Nádia Fernandes, Daniel Costa, Carlos Duarte & Luís Carriço

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Fernandes, N., Costa, D., Duarte, C., Carriço, L. (2013). Evaluating the Accessibility of Adaptive TV Based Web Applications. In: Biswas, P., Duarte, C., Langdon, P., Almeida, L., Jung, C. (eds) A Multimodal End-2-End Approach to Accessible Computing. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5082-4_9

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