Integrated Accessibility Models of User Interfaces for IT and Automation Systems.
Peter Göhner, Simon Kunz, Sabina Jeschke, Helmut Vieritz, Olivier Pfeiffer · 2008
The difference between user interfaces of computer and Web applications on one hand and the interfaces of actual machines and devices is becoming smaller. By this the importance of comprehensive – meaning the inclusion of both types of systems – accessibility and usability con-cepts is getting bigger. The aim of this research project is to provide functionality even under difficult circum-stances. Among these we have individual difficulties of a user (disabilities) and environmental disturbances (noise, bright light) as well as constraints that are arising from the technology that the user has at disposal. This project’s emphasis is on two points: To unify accessible user inter-faces for computers, machines and devices and to simplify the development of such by a model-based development approach. With the help of a user-centered approach, we will first specify the different demands on user-interfaces. After that the demands will be integrated into the model-driven development approach of the Model-Driven Archi-tecture (MDA). Due to the universal approach, it is possi-ble to do justice to the increasing fusion of user interfaces of Web and desktop applications with the ones of automa-tion systems. 1