Making Nonaccessible Applications Accessible for Visually Impaired

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Making Nonaccessible Applications Accessible for Visually Impaired

Original language description

Apple Human Interface Guidelines state that all applications should be accessible in order to provide the best user experience. Not all software vendors honor this statement and if an application does not support accessibility, people with disability ora special need can hardly use it or cannot use it at all. The purpose of this paper is to present a method that is capable of extending an already existing applications to support accessibility without the necessity to have access to the source code of the application. Paper proposes the use of Mach code injection techniques to load access enabling code into the context of the access enabled application and describes ways that are used to make the application accessible. There is also a case study of proposals offered by this paper on a portion of ProTools, a professional audio editing software that makes its mix table window accessible.

Czech name

Zpristupneni nepristupnych aplikaci pro zrakove postizene

Czech description

Dokument Apple Human Interface Guidelines definuje, ze vsechny aplikace by mely byt pristupne aby mohly poskytnout nejlepsi uzivatelske rozhrani. Ne vsichni softwarovi vyrobci tudo definici respektuji, a proto lide s postizenim nebo zvlastni potrebou mohou jejich aplikace pouzivat jen castecne nebo vubec. Ucel tohoto clanku je prezentovat novou metodu, ktera umozuje zpristupnit jiz existujici aplikaci bez nutnosti mit k dispozici zdrojovy kod aplikace. Clanek navrhuje pouzit metodu injekce kodu do kontextu zpristupnovane aplikace, ktery zajisti jeji zpristupneni. Soucasti clanku je pripadova studie, ktera demonstruje pouziti na aplikaci ProTools a jejim okne, ktere reprezentuje mixazni pult.

Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

JC - Computer hardware and software

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)

Publication year

2006

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Computers Helping People with Special Needs

ISBN

3-540-36020-4

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

1047-1054

Publisher name

Springer

Place of publication

Berlin

Event location

Linz

Event date

Jul 12, 2006

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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