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IT-FUNK-IT for funksjonshemmede

User Testing Tool - Combining user testing with automated testing to assure accessible web sites.

Awarded: NOK 0.29 mill.

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222925

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2012 - 2013

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People with disabilities, still find insurmountable barriers on web sites and online services, preventing full participation. With the increasing life expectancy, the group of people with disabilities will grow and thus increase the need for accessible pu blic services and online content. User testing of web site accessibility is labour intensive and is therefore expensive to perform. Automated accessibility testing is cheap and reliable, but can only cover about 20% of all possible barriers on a web sit e. Therefore we propose to develop a new approach to combine the benefits of automated testing with user testing in a new tool to improve the quality and coverage of the evaluation results. The R&D challenges to be addressed in the proposed main project include how to: * Combine the automated testing with user input on targeted questions in a suitable way. * Guide the user through the testing procedure directing the attention to objects to be examined and supporting the actual manual check of them. * Ta ke a representative sample from a web site for automated and for user testing. Exhaustive checking of the complete web site is often not feasible. * Track the user behaviour (user input, mouse movements, and clicks) without any code injection on the web site or installation of software on the client side. * Combine the test results from a large numbers of users to provide statistically significant inputs from the user interaction to web site design. * Design a fully accessible user interface to the UTT to enable users with disabilities to carry out the tests. * Use the UTT to create new jobs, specially for people with disabilities. The pre-project will refine the research challenges and provide the UTT demonstrator as an open source online service with a prototype interface for real users to try out and comment on.

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IT-FUNK-IT for funksjonshemmede

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