A First Look at Accessibility Issues in Popular GitHub Projects

2021 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI:10.1109/ICSME52107.2021.00041

Tingting Bi, Xin Xia, D. Lo, A. Aleti

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Abstract

Accessibility design elements allow people to access software products and services independent of their different abilities. However, accessibility is challenging to handle and whether accessibility is widely considered in software projects is unclear. In this work, we aim to understand if accessibility is a prevalent consideration in practice, what accessibility issues are discussed in GitHub projects, what potential reasons cause accessibility issues, and what solutions (e.g., tools and standards) are applied for addressing accessibility issues. In this work, we collect 11,820 accessibility issues and their threads discussed by developers in popular GitHub projects. We manually analyzed and grouped the collected accessibility issues into seven categories. The results of our study uncover that accessibility is widely discussed in general projects, and the potential reasons that cause accessibility issues are because developers are not aware of the importance of accessibility and they lack knowledge about accessibility concerns, standards, and existing tools. Our results and findings can enhance and improve developers' knowledge and awareness when they conduct accessibility-relevant design or incorporate accessibility elements into their projects.

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首先看看流行的GitHub项目中的可访问性问题

易访问性设计元素允许人们独立于不同的能力访问软件产品和服务。然而，易访问性很难处理，而且在软件项目中是否广泛考虑易访问性还不清楚。在这项工作中，我们的目标是了解可访问性是否在实践中是一个普遍的考虑因素，在GitHub项目中讨论了哪些可访问性问题，导致可访问性问题的潜在原因是什么，以及应用了哪些解决方案(例如，工具和标准)来解决可访问性问题。在这项工作中，我们收集了11,820个可访问性问题及其线程，这些问题是由开发人员在流行的GitHub项目中讨论的。我们手动分析并将收集到的可访问性问题分为七个类别。我们的研究结果揭示了可访问性在一般项目中被广泛讨论，导致可访问性问题的潜在原因是开发人员没有意识到可访问性的重要性，并且他们缺乏关于可访问性关注点、标准和现有工具的知识。当开发人员进行易访问性相关的设计或将易访问性元素合并到他们的项目中时，我们的结果和发现可以增强和改进开发人员的知识和意识。

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