Arthur Floriano Barbosa Andrade de Oliveira
ABSTRACT
Smartphones are a powerful tool to help visually impaired people in accessing relevant services such as education, transportation and leisure through applications. Yet, despite the growing number of mobile accessibility studies, compared to website-related studies, there are still few established and well-established techniques and guidelines. As a result, development tools for building accessibility in mobile applications are scarce. They are based primarily on operating systems recommendations and guidelines, such as those provided by Google and Apple and many are useful only after the development effort has been spent. This paper presents AccessibiLint, a tool for static code verification of accessibility rules for Android native applications. AccessibiLint was developed as an extension of Android Lint tool base on a set of guidelines for visually impairment accessibility for native Android applications.
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Index Terms
- AccessibiLint: a tool for early accessibility verification for android native applications
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