A survey on the awareness of brazilian web development community about cognitive accessibility

Proceedings of the 18th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems Pub Date : 2019-10-22 DOI:10.1145/3357155.3358448

Talita Cristina Pagani Britto Pichiliani, E. Pizzolato

{"title":"A survey on the awareness of brazilian web development community about cognitive accessibility","authors":"Talita Cristina Pagani Britto Pichiliani, E. Pizzolato","doi":"10.1145/3357155.3358448","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Although the awareness about cognitive disabilities has been increasing in the last few years, it is still less than necessary compared to other disabilities. The need for an investigation about this issue is part of the agenda of the Challenge 2 (Accessibility and Digital Inclusion) from GranDIHC-Br. This paper describes the results of an online exploratory survey conducted with 105 web development professionals to understand their knowledge and barriers regarding accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities. The results evidenced three biases that potentially prevent those professionals from approaching cognitive disabilities: strong organizational barriers; difficulty to understand issues related to cognitive disabilities; a knowledge gap about web accessibility. Thus, we confirmed that web development professionals still lack awareness about cognitive web accessibility, and we suggest that applied research studies focus on how to fill this knowledge gap before providing tools, artifacts or frameworks.","PeriodicalId":237718,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 18th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"12","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 18th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3357155.3358448","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 12

Abstract

Although the awareness about cognitive disabilities has been increasing in the last few years, it is still less than necessary compared to other disabilities. The need for an investigation about this issue is part of the agenda of the Challenge 2 (Accessibility and Digital Inclusion) from GranDIHC-Br. This paper describes the results of an online exploratory survey conducted with 105 web development professionals to understand their knowledge and barriers regarding accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities. The results evidenced three biases that potentially prevent those professionals from approaching cognitive disabilities: strong organizational barriers; difficulty to understand issues related to cognitive disabilities; a knowledge gap about web accessibility. Thus, we confirmed that web development professionals still lack awareness about cognitive web accessibility, and we suggest that applied research studies focus on how to fill this knowledge gap before providing tools, artifacts or frameworks.

查看原文本刊更多论文

巴西web开发社区对认知可及性的认知调查

虽然在过去的几年里，人们对认知障碍的认识有所提高，但与其他残疾相比，认知障碍的认识仍然不足。对这一问题进行调查的必要性是grandhc - br挑战2(可访问性和数字包容)议程的一部分。本文描述了一项在线探索性调查的结果，该调查对105名web开发专业人员进行了调查，以了解他们对认知障碍人士的可访问性的了解和障碍。结果表明，有三种偏见可能会阻碍这些专业人士接近认知障碍:强大的组织障碍;难以理解与认知障碍有关的问题;关于网页可访问性的知识差距。因此，我们确认了web开发专业人员仍然缺乏对认知web可访问性的认识，并且我们建议应用研究在提供工具、工件或框架之前关注如何填补这一知识空白。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Proceedings of the 18th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems

自引率

0.00%

发文量