Barriers common to mobile and disabled web users

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2011-09-01

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Yesilada, Yeliz
Brajnik, Giorgio
Harper, Simon

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World Wide Web accessibility and best practice audits and evaluations are becoming increasingly complicated, time consuming, and costly because of the increasing number of conformance criteria which need to be tested. In the case of web access by disabled users and mobile users, a number of commonalities have been identified in usage, which have been termed situationally-induced impairments; in effect the barriers experienced by mobile web users have been likened to those of visually disabled and motor impaired users. In this case, we became interested in understanding if it was possible to evaluate the problems of mobile web users in terms of the aggregation of barriers-to-access experienced by disabled users; and in this way attempt to reduce the need for the evaluation of the additional conformance criteria associated with mobile web best practice guidelines. We used the Barrier Walkthrough (BW) method as our analytical framework. Capable of being used to evaluate accessibility in both the disabled and mobile contexts, the BW method would also enable testing and aggregation of barriers across our target user groups.

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Web accessibility evaluation, Mobile web evaluation, Barrier walkthrough aggregation

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11511/66521

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INTERACTING WITH COMPUTERS

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intcom.2011.05.005

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Y. Yesilada, G. Brajnik, and S. Harper, “Barriers common to mobile and disabled web users,” INTERACTING WITH COMPUTERS, pp. 525–542, 2011, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/66521.