Accessibility
by
Benedikt Liegener
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last modified
Jul 07, 2011 11:09
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filed under:
QualityAttribute,
KnowledgeModel
Definitions
| Term: Accessibility |
Domain: Cross-cutting issues | ||||
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| Engineering and Design (KM-ED) |
Adaptation and Monitoring (KM-AM) |
Quality Definition, Negotiation and
Assurance (KM-QA) |
Generic (domain independent) |
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| D o m a i n : L a y e r s |
Business Process Management (KM-BPM) |
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| Service Composition and
Coordination (KM-SC) |
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| Service Infrastructure (KM-SI) |
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| Generic (domain independent) |
Accessibility refers to the ability of individuals
with diverse capacities, preferences and context of use to use a
product, a service or an environment – but not necessarily with the
same degree of usability for all. [Vanderheiden, 1993]
[Stephanidis et al, 1998] |
It defines whether the service is capable of serving
requests. Note that while many services are ready to use, they might
not be accessible to specific clients. For instance, the connection
between the service and the client is problematic or the service has
already reached its threshold. [CD-JRA-1.3.2] {GEN: Dependability} |
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Competencies
- POLIMI: Web service retrieval, flexible and self-healing web services and context-aware invocation; http://home.dei.polimi.it/pernici/ws-research.html; Barbara Pernici, Maria Grazia Fugini, Danilo Ardagna, Pierluigi Plebani, Cinzia Cappiello, Marco Comuzzi
- CITY: Inclusive design and social aspects of computing, Interaction
design and research; http://hcid.soi.city.ac.uk/research/index.html;
Neil Maiden, Angela Kounkou
External Competencies
- Cyprus University of Technology: Accessibility; http://www.cut.ac.cy/; Panayiotis Zaphiris
Scenarios
TBD
References
- [CD-JRA-1.3.2]
"Quality reference model for service-based applications"
- [Vanderheiden, 1993] G.C. Vanderheiden, "Making
Software more Accessible for People with Disabilities", ACM SIGCAPH
Computers and the Physically Handicapped, vol. 47, pp. 2-32, June
1993.
- [Stephanidis et al, 1998] C. Stephanidis, D. Akoumianakis, M. Sfyrakis, and A. Paramythis, "Universal accessibility in HCI: Process-oriented design guidelines and tool requirements", October 1998.
