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Evaluation of Accessibility
Authors: Koutsabasis, Panayiotis
Reviewer: Lepouras, Georgios
Subject: ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY > TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
Description:
Abstract:
After completing this chapter, the reader will be able to: - Describe the concepts of accessibility, universal design, and design for all. - List and describe important arguments in favor of designing for accessibility. - Identify important categories of users affected by the non-accessible design of interactive systems. - Analyze the barriers faced by important categories of users in cases of non-accessible design. - Present examples of accessible/non-accessible design of interactive systems for important categories of users. - Recognize the general categories of accessibility assessment methods and their key characteristics. - List important principles and goals of universal design. - Recognize the main accessibility design challenges for world wide web and personal computer technologies. - Conduct an inspection of restrictive access situations, according to simple heuristics and software tools. - Develop easy accessibility checks for web content. - Understand the results obtained from the technical control of web content accessibility. - Explain the advantages and limitations of remote accessibility testing involving people with special needs. - Support the necessity of accessibility testing involving users with special needs.
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 2015
Item Details:
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/2767
Bibliographic Reference: Koutsabasis, P. (2015). Evaluation of Accessibility [Chapter]. In Koutsabasis, P. 2015. User -Centered Evaluation of Interactive Systems [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/2767
Language: Greek
Is Part of: User -Centered Evaluation of Interactive Systems
Number of pages 58
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions