ACCESSIBLE - Applications Design and Development

Publications

2012

  • Giakoumis, D., Kaklanis, N., Votis, K., Tzovaras, D. "Enabling user interface developers to experience accessibility limitations through visual, hearing, cognitive and physical impairment simulation". Universal Access in the Information Society, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. Accepted for publication 2012.
  • N. Fernandes, R. Lopes, L. Carriço. "Evaluating Web accessibility at different processing phases". New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia. Taylor & Francis. 2012, 23 pages. (Available online on Taylor & Francis, Forthcoming in paper format).

2011

  • L. Carriço, R. Lopes, and R. Bandeira. 2011. "Crosschecking the mobile web for people with visual impairments". In Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 12, 4 pages.
  • E. Chalkia, E. Bekiaris. "A harmonised methodology for the components of software applications accessibility and its evaluation", Universal Access in HCI, Part I, LNCS 6765, July 2011, pages 197-205.
  • Jan Vystrcil, Zdenek Mikovec, Marek Fronc, Jiri Drbalek. "Accessibility Issues Simulation For Mobile Applications". AEGIS Workshop and International Conference - "Accessibility Reaching Everywhere", 29-30 November 2011, Brussels, Belgium
  • Theofanis Oikonomou, Dionysia Kontotasiou And Dimitrios Tzovaras. "Providing An IDE For Creating, Simulating And Assessing Accessible Applications". AEGIS Workshop and International Conference - "Accessibility Reaching Everywhere", 29-30 November 2011, Brussels, Belgium
  • Partarakis, N., Doulgeraki, C., Antona, M., Oikonomou, T., Kaklanis, N., Votis, K., Kastori, G.E., and Tzovaras, D. "A unified environment for accessing a suite of accessibility evaluation facilities". In Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Universal access in human-computer interaction: design for all and eInclusion - Volume Part I, Orlando, USA, 2011, Springer-Verlag, pages 267-275.
  • Bandeira, R., Lopes, R., and Carriço, L. "Results from multi-dimensional accessibility assessment". In Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Universal access in human-computer interaction: design for all and eInclusion - Volume Part I (UAHCI'11), Orlando, USA, 2011, Springer-Verlag, pages187-196.
  • Fernandes, N., Lopes, R., and Carriço, L. "On web accessibility evaluation environments". In Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A '11), (Hyderabad, India, 2011), ACM, Article 4, 10 pages, DOI=10.1145/1969289.1969295

2010

  • Lopes, R., Votis, K., Carriço, L., Tzovaras, D., and Likothanassis, S. "The semantics of personalised web accessibility assessment". In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Sierre, Switzerland, 2010, ACM, 1440-1441, DOI=10.1145/1774088.1774394
  • Oikonomou, T., Votis, K., Tzovaras, D. and Korn, P. "An Approximation Simulator for Designing and Developing Accessible Java Swing Applications", In Free and Open Source Software for Accessible Mainstream Applications (FOSS-AMA), collocated with ETAPS (European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software), Paphos, Cyprus, 2010.
  • Karel Van Isacker, Mariya Goranova-Valkova. "ÆGIS-ACCESSIBLE: Users Involvement Driving Accessibility Forward". Presented at FOSS AMA (Free and Open Source Software for Accessible Mainstream Applications), satellite event in the context of ETAPS 2010 (European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software), Paphos, Cyprus, 27-28 March 2010
  • R. Bandeira, R. Lopes and L. Carriço. "Towards Mobile Web Accessibility Evaluation". Free and Open Source Software for Accessible Mainstream Applications (FOSS-AMA), colocated with ETAPS 2010, Paphos, Cyprus, 27-28 March 2010, pages 12
  • Chalkia Eleni, Evangelos Bekiaris, Rui Lopes, Kastori Grammati-Eirini and Luís Carriço. "HARMONISATION OF ACCESSIBLITY COMPONENTS IN THE CONTENT OF "ACCESSIBLE" PROJECT". In Free and Open Source Software for Accessible Mainstream Applications (FOSS-AMA), collocated with ETAPS (European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software), Paphos, Cyprus, 2010.
  • Oikonomou, T., Votis, K., Korn, P. and Tzovaras, D. "Simulating vision impairments for Java/Swing developers using the NetBeans IDE", In 25th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference, San Diego, USA, 2010.
  • Van Isacker, K., Goranova-Valkova, M., Chalkia, E., Bekiaris, E., Votis, K., Tzovaras, D. "Accessible Web Design a Burden? - Lessons learned from the Accessible Project", European Journal of ePractice, 2010, pages 12-20.
  • Giakoumis, D., Votis, K., Tzovaras, D., Likothanassis, S. and Hassapis, G., "Introducing accessibility in the Web services domain". 3rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, ICCSIT, Chengdu, China, 2010, pages 18-22.
  • K. Van Isacker, M. Goranova-Valkova, E. Chalkia, E. Bekiaris, K. Votis, D. Tzovaras. "Accessible Web Design a Burden? - Lessons learned from the Accessible Project". European Journal of ePractice, ISSN: 1988-625X, N 10, September 2010.
  • E. Chalkia, E. Bekiaris. "ACCESSIBLE EU PROJECT USE CASES". AEGIS Project conference proceedings pp.165-175, Seville Spain, 7-8 October 2010.
  • BANDEIRA , Luís CARRIÇO, Karel VAN ISACKER, 1st ÆGIS International Conference, Seville, Spain, 7-8 October 2010
  • E. Chalkia, E. Bekiaris. "The ACCESSIBLE Software Applications Accessibility Assessment Tools and Evaluation Framework", Confidence conference proceedings pp.47-58, Jyväskylä Finland, December 2010.
  • Oikonomou, T., Votis, K., Tzovaras, D., and Korn, P. "Designing and developing accessible java swing applications". In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computers helping people with special needs: Part I, ICCHP, Vienna, Austria, 2010, Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W., and Karshmer, A. (Eds.). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 186-188.
  • Lopes, R., Van Isacker, K., and Carriço, L. "Redefining Assumptions: Accessibility and Its Stakeholders", in Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computers helping people with special needs: Part I (ICCHP'10), Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W., and Karshmer, A. (Eds.). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pages 561-568.
  • Lopes, R. and Carriço, L. "Macroscopic characterisations of Web accessibility". The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia - Web Accessibility, 16 (3), 221-243, DOI=10.1080/13614568.2010.534185
  • Lopes, R., Gomes, D., and Carriço, L. "Web not for all: a large scale study of web accessibility". In Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A '10), (Raleigh, USA, 2010), ACM, Article 10, 4 pages, DOI=10.1145/1805986.1806001

2009

  • Oikonomou, T., Votis, K., Tzovaras, D., Korn, P. "An Open Source Tool for Simulating a Variety of Vision Impairments in Developing Swing Applications". in Stephanidis, C ed. Addressing Diversity in Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2009, pages 135-144.
  • Oikonomou, T., Votis, K., Korn, P., Tzovaras, D., Likothanasis, S., Holzinger, A. and Miesenberger, K. “A Standalone Vision Impairments Simulator for Java Swing Applications”. in Holzinger, A. and Miesenberger, K. (Eds.) HCI and Usability for e-Inclusion, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2009, pages 387-398
  • Votis, K., Oikonomou, T., Korn, P., Tzovaras, D. and Likothanassis, S. 2009. “A visual impaired simulator to achieve embedded accessibility designs”. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Intelligent Systems 2009, ICIS, (Shanghai, China, 2009), pages 368-372.
  • Lopes, R., Votis, K., Carriço, L., & Likothanassis, S. “A Service Oriented Ontological Framework for the Semantic Validation of Web Accessibility”. In M. Cruz-Cunha, E. Oliveira, A. Tavares, & L. Ferreira (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Social Dimensions of Semantic Technologies and Web Services, IGI Global, Hershey, 2009, 49-67, DOI=10.4018/978-1-60566-650-1.ch003
  • Lopes, R., Votis, K., Carriço, L., Tzovaras, D., and Likothanassis, S. “Towards the universal semantic assessment of accessibility”. In Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing, (Honolulu, USA, 2009), ACM, 147-151, DOI=10.1145/1529282.1529311
  • Votis, K., Lopes, R., Tzovaras, D., Carriço, L., and Likothanassis, S. “A Semantic Accessibility Assessment Environment for Design and Development for the Web”. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Part III: Applications and Services, (San Diego, USA, 2009), Springer-Verlag, 803-813. DOI=10.1007/978-3-642-02713-0_86

Public Deliverables

  • D2.1 State of the Art Survey in Accessibility Research and Market Survey
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  • D2.2b User needs and System Requirements Specification
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  • D3.1 ACCESSIBLE harmonized methodology
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  • D3.2 ACCESSIBLE best practice catalogue
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  • D3.3a ACCESSIBLE system architecture specification (beta)
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  • D4.1 A set of formalisms and taxonomies for accessibility assessment procedures and their inherent meta models
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  • D4.3 A set of guidelines for the Validation and integration of the implemented tools and methodologies
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  • D8.1a Dissemination plans and materials
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  • D8.1b Project web site
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  • D8.1c Project Presentation
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  • D8.1d Dissemination plans and materials
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