Peter Korn

Towards Open Access Accessibility Everywhere: The ÆGIS Concept

The current paper presents the concept of AEGIS Integrating Project (Grant Agreement: 224348), which aims to embed support for accessibility into every aspect of ICT-including the pre-built user-interface components, developers tools, software applications and the run-time environment, and via embeddable assistive technologies. AEGIS is a 3,5 years project, aiming to constitute a breakthrough in the eInclusion area, through the development of an Open Accessibility Framework, upon which open source accessibility interfaces and applications for the users as well as accessibility toolkits for the developers will be built. Three mainstream markets are targeted, namely the desktop, rich Internet applications and mobile devices/applications market segments.

An Open Source Tool for Simulating a Variety of Vision Impairments in Developing Swing Applications

A lot of tools have been created lately in order to simulate how a vision impaired or color-blind person would perceive web rich-client applications and content. In this work we propose a simulation tool for non-web JavaTM Swing applications. The aim is to assist the developers in preventing accessibility barriers and improving the overall quality throughout the design and implementation phases of the whole development process.

A visual impaired simulator to achieve embedded accessibility designs

The ever increasing of software technologies has brought closer technology to users with visual impaired inabilities. This diversification poses a real challenge to “authors” (developers and designers) when creating software that has to cope with a myriad of interaction situations, as well as specific directives for ensuring an accessible interaction. Presenting an advanced accessibility simulation tool, “authors” can obtain a better understanding of the accessibility constraints for visual impaired users within a Java Swing application by simulating each element. The proposed NetBeans-enabled plugin tool will assist them, with a minimal effort, to explore user-centered design and important accessibility issues for their Java Swing implementations

Designing and developing accessible java swing applications

Existing development tools provide little out-of-the-box assistance in order to design and develop accessible ICT Java solutions for impaired users. Two new approximation simulation tools are presented in an attempt to achieve accessibility design and development of Java Swing applications.

A Standalone Vision Impairments Simulator for Java Swing Applications

A lot of work has been done lately in an attempt to assess accessibility. For the case of web rich-client applications several tools exist that simulate how a vision impaired or colour-blind person would perceive this content. In this work we propose a simulation tool for non-web JavaTM Swing applications. Developers and designers face a real challenge when creating software that has to cope with a lot of interaction situations, as well as specific directives for ensuring an accessible interaction. The proposed standalone tool will assist them to explore user-centered design and important accessibility issues for their JavaTM Swing implementations.