Empathic communication of accessibility barriers in Web 2.0 editing

Afra Pascual, Mireia Ribera*, Toni Granollers

Who authors content nowadays?

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Content writers want to reachALL their audience

Accessibility IS a human issue

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But, current authoring and evaluation tools...

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Our proposal:

Empathic Editor for Accessibility (EE4A)

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Theoretical foundations:

Semiotics engineering

The user and the designer communicate through the interface

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Theoretical foundations:

User Centered Design

Personas Simulation

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Validation (guerrilla test)

• Comparative test TAW vs early prototype EE4A– Users and tasks

• 8 users

• Image alternative, anchor test, hierarchy of headers

• Eye tracking

– Results• EE4A easier to understand

• EE4A friendlier

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We are looking for ways to pursue this development...

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Thanks for CC images to:

• https://openclipart.org/detail/211418/thenanobel-programming

• https://openclipart.org/detail/213681/shrug-as-gesture

• http://www.greatsampleresume.com/career-images/Computer-Programmer-Job-Interview-Help.jpg

• https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7237/7298218996_7805c883e9_h.jpg

• http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/EXIT_2012_Audience_(1).jpg

• http://pixabay.com/es/motivaci%C3%B3n-%C3%A9xito-pulgar-exitosa-721826/

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