Full mobile accessibility is a matter of respect

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Correia ◽  
Marcelo Penha ◽  
Jefté Macedo ◽  
Weynner Santos ◽  
Jonysberg Quintino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Accessibility

Mobile Accessibility in Touchscreen Devices

2014 ◽  
pp. 182-202
Author(s):  
Volkan Çalışkan ◽  
Özgürol Öztürk ◽  
Kerem Rızvanoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Screen Reader ◽  
Observation Methods ◽  
Mobile Accessibility ◽  
Usage Patterns ◽  
Multi Method Approach

Mobile technology is a new frontier for accessibility. Although mobile developers need solid guidelines to provide accessible experiences, there is a limited number of empirical research on mobile accessibility of different mobile platforms that work through various assistive technologies. In this context, more information is needed to understand both usage patterns and hardware/software platforms to guide decisions to meet the needs of people with disabilities who use mobile devices. This study, which is a pilot study of a long-term research, evaluates the accessibility of selected built-in and third party iOS applications in the iPhone and iPad through an extensive accessibility test with two blind users who are novice users of touchscreen mobile devices. This qualitative study is based on a multi-method approach, which consists of a background questionnaire, task observation, and a structured debriefing interview. The study also employs observation methods of data collection in order to gain better insight in mobile accessibility. The participants are demanded to execute three different tasks on each platform by using VoiceOver, which is the built-in screen reader in iOS. The participants are observed during the task executions and the “think aloud” procedure and video recording of the participants collected additional data. A short debriefing interview was also made to gain a detailed insight into the user experience. The findings reveal significant accessibility problems caused specifically by design of the graphical user interface features of the applications and limitations of the screen reader. Finally, as part of future research directions, preliminary guidelines are proposed to improve accessibility for iOS applications in both platforms.

A Preliminary Study toward Wireless Integration of Patient Information System

2009 ◽  
pp. 282-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul-Rahman Al-Ali ◽  
Tarik Ozkul ◽  
Taha Landolsi
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Patient Information ◽  
Query Language ◽  
Local Area Network ◽  
Personal Digital Assistants ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Implementation Barriers ◽  
Mobile Accessibility ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Patient Information System

This paper presents the results of a study toward generating a wireless environment to provide real-time mobile accessibility to patient information system. A trial system is set up where database, internet, and wireless personal digital assistants (PDAs) are integrated in such a way that the medical professionals like physicians, nurses and lab assistants can create, access and update medical records using wireless PDAs from any location in the hospital which is covered by wireless LAN. The same services which can be carried out via fixed terminals with internet connectivity can be carried out using wireless PDAs. The implementation has used and integrated many technologies like Active Server Pages (ASP), Visual Basic®, Structured Query Language (SQL) Server, ActiveSync®, IEEE802.11 Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) technology and wireless security concepts. The paper details the architectural aspects of technology integration and the methodology used for setting up the end-to-end system. The proposed architecture, its performance data and the common implementation barriers are reported.

scholarly journals Security Problems in Cloud Computing

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rola Motawie ◽  
Mahmoud M. El-Khouly ◽  
Samir Abou El-Seoud
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Computing Technology ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Mobile Accessibility ◽  
Cloud Users ◽  
Day By Day

Cloud is a pool of computing resources which are distributed among cloud users. Cloud computing has many benefits like scalability, flexibility, cost savings, reliability, maintenance and mobile accessibility. Since cloud-computing technology is growing day by day, it comes with many security problems. Securing the data in the cloud environment is most critical challenges which act as a barrier when implementing the cloud. There are many new concepts that cloud introduces, such as resource sharing, multi-tenancy, and outsourcing, create new challenges for the security community. In this work, we provide a comparable study of cloud computing privacy and security concerns. We identify and classify known security threats, cloud vulnerabilities, and attacks.

scholarly journals Mobile Accessibility Workshop

2011 ◽  
pp. 734-735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Gonçalves ◽  
Luis Carriço ◽  
Markel Vigo
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Accessibility

Customers’ cherry picking and mobile accessibility on competing firms’ profitability

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (8) ◽  
pp. 1234-1252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qin Wan ◽  
Shilei Yang ◽  
Yi Liao ◽  
Xinxin Hu
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Accessibility ◽  
Cherry Picking

Toward Distributed QoS Driven Wireless Messaging Infrastructure

2012 ◽  
pp. 377-391
Author(s):  
Souheil Khaddaj ◽  
Bippin Makoond
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Video Transmission ◽  
Voice Over Ip ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Banking Services ◽  
Quality Aspects ◽  
Mobile Accessibility ◽  
Mobile Market

The Telecoms market is demanding more services which involve an increased mobile accessibility to the Internet, real time video transmission, real time games, Voice over IP (VOIP), and business critical transactions such as billing transactions and banking services. Meeting these challenges requires the mobile operators to change the way they design their telephony and messaging systems. As the mobile market moves to become more service centric, rather than technology centric, Quality of Service (QoS) has grown to become imperative, since in the Telecoms innovative services are very often short lived, where the quality aspects of a system and the provided services contribute as key differentiators. Thus, the main focus of this chapter is based around the QoS issues which have led to the consideration of a distributed messaging model to address the challenges faced in the Telecoms industry.

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