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A Bridge to Web Accessibility from the Usability Heuristics

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HCI and Usability for e-Inclusion (USAB 2009)

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There is not a clear distinction between accessibility and usability for all. This work shows the overlap between usability and accessibility proposing a bridge from the usability heuristics to WCAG 2.0 guidelines. The mapping between some usability and accessibility concepts can be a useful resource to know what aspects of accessibility were collected when the usability is taken into account.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avda. Universidad 30, Leganés, 28911, Madrid, Spain

    Lourdes Moreno, Paloma Martínez & Belén Ruiz-Mezcua

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  1. Research Unit HCI4MED, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation (IMI) Auenbruggerplatz 2/V, Medical University of Graz (MUG), 8036, Graz, Austria

    Andreas Holzinger

  2. Institut Integriert Studieren, University of Linz, Altenbergerstraße 49, 4040, Linz, Austria

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Moreno, L., Martínez, P., Ruiz-Mezcua, B. (2009). A Bridge to Web Accessibility from the Usability Heuristics. In: Holzinger, A., Miesenberger, K. (eds) HCI and Usability for e-Inclusion. USAB 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5889. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10308-7_20

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