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This study was made over some database of accessibility principles, to investigate the state of the art of contemporary design topics about accessibility in mobile applications, while comparing the WCAG 2.1 and the Guide for Development of Accessible Mobile Applications (GUAMA) in a case study with the Samsung Áudio Acordes (Chords), an app developed for teaching guitar for blind people. The results will serve to propose revisions/new protocols which allow to evaluate and sketch more accessible versions of these kind of digital products, helping development teams, designers, testers, etc., to improve the experiences for users with disabilities into new more accessible mobile applications.
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The results presented in this paper have been developed as part of a collaborative project between Samsung Institute for Development of Informatics (Samsung/SIDI) and the Centre of Informatics at the Federal University of Pernambuco (CIn/UFPE), financed by Samsung Eletronica da Amazonia Ltda., under the auspices of the Brazilian Federal Law of Informatics no. 8248/91. The authors would like to thank the support received from the Samsung/SIDI team. Professor Fabio Q. B. da Silva holds a research grant from the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq), process #314523/2009-0.
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Correia, W. et al. (2020). Being Inclusive: Is It Possible a Blind Person Learn Playing Guitar in an [Really] Accessible App?. In: Ahram, T., Falcão, C. (eds) Advances in Usability and User Experience. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 972. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19135-1_23
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