Towards Collaboration on Accessible UML Models
Stephan Seifermann, Henning Groenda · 2015
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is one of the most used software description languages.Its graphical syntax, however, impedes visually impaired people from taking part in discussions.Editors for textual and graphical UML syntaxes exist but lack advanced support for collaborative editing.In this paper, we describe our plans on implementing a collaborative editing environment consisting of an accessible textual UML editor with state-of-the-art user support and consistency preservation mechanisms for real-time collaboration.We present our ideas to discuss their completeness or identify additional accessibility features.An industrial software engineering team that includes visually impaired engineers will evaluate our results continuously.There are approaches on textual representations of UML with limited coverage of the implemented UML diagram types.They usually do not provide feature-rich, accessible