Following ACCESSIBLE project video contains an interview with Dr. Dimitris Tzovaras and Mr. Kostas Votis from CERTH-ITI (The Centre for Research & Technology, Hellas - Informatics and Telematics Institute), coordinators of the ACCESSIBLE Project (Accessibility Assessment Simulation Environment for New Applications Design and Development) which is coming to an end in February 2012 after 42 months of intensive work.
The triggering idea behind ACCESSIBLE was to contribute for better accessibility for all citizens, to increase the use of standards, and to develop an assessment simulation environment (including a suite of accessibility analysing tools as well as developer-aid tools) to assess efficiently, easily and rapidly the accessibility and viability of software applications for all user groups.
ACCESSIBLE exploited the technologies behind the recent expansion of accessibility tools and standardisation methodologies, in order to provide an integrated simulation assessment environment for supporting the production of accessible software applications mobile or not.
This will enable large organisations, SMEs or individuals (developers, designers, etc.) to produce software products of superior accessibility and quality, accompanied with appropriate measures and proposals for best practice. The proposed system was demonstrated in pilots in Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Italy and Spain, addressing the accessibility assessment of
a) Mobile applications, b) Web applications, c) Web services (mainly focusing on infomobility services), and d) description languages (e.g. UML, SDL, etc.).
Following tools were released (available at the ACCESSIBLE Sourceforge page)
- Disability Impairment Approximation Simulator - DIAS
- Web accessibility assessment Tool - WaaT
- Web Service accessibility assessment Tool - WebSaaT
- Mobile Web accessibility assessment Tool - MobileWaaT
- Description Language accessibility assessment Tool - DLaaT
- Mobile Impairment Simulation Tool - MIS tool
