SWAT: Mobile System-Wide Assistive Technologies

Mobile operating systems have evolved to provide increasing accessibility capabilities. However, mobile application developers are still restricted to deploy custom-made accessible applications or to extend limited and stereotyped accessibility services. In this paper, we present SWAT, an extensible framework that provides system-level content and event information to application developers. Its use is demonstrated in a multi-impairment case study achieving automatic row-column scanning with audio feedback. SWAT presents strengths usable in several other system-wide contexts that empower developers and users: adaptation, logging, testing and simulation.

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André Rodrigues

Tiago Guerreiro

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Publication date: September 2014

Publication date (Print): September 2014

Pages: 341-346

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[0001]LaSIGE, Department of Informatics,

University of Lisbon

Campo Grande, C6 Piso3, 1749-016,

Lisboa, Portugal

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2014.55

SO-VID: eff03e65-6e25-4ce1-a9b4-d53d44da0520

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2014)

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 28

Conference location: Southport, UK

Conference date: 9 - 12 September 2014

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2014)

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SWAT: Mobile System-Wide Assistive Technologies

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