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Addressing Age-Related Accessibility Needs of Senior Users Through Model-Driven Engineering

Software Engineering 2023-07-11 v2

Abstract

One of the main reasons that cause seniors to face accessibility barriers when trying to use software applications is that the age-related user interface (UI) needs of seniors (e.g., physical and cognitive limitations) are not properly addressed in software user interfaces. The existing literature proposes model-driven engineering based UI adaptations as a prominent solution for this phenomenon. But in our exploration into the domain, we identified that the existing work lacks comprehensiveness when it comes to integrating accessibility into software modelling tools and methods when compared to a well-recognised accessibility standard such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Thus in this paper, we outline a research roadmap that aims to use WCAG as a reference framework to design domain-specific languages that model the diverse accessibility scenarios of senior users via user context information and UI adaptation rules modelling so that they meet the accessibility standards specified in WCAG.

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@article{arxiv.2305.00695,
  title  = {Addressing Age-Related Accessibility Needs of Senior Users Through Model-Driven Engineering},
  author = {Shavindra Wickramathilaka and Ingo Mueller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.00695},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Accepted to the 16th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2023), 6 pages, 2 figures, 1 table

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