Butterfleye : Supporting the Development of Accessible Web Applications for Users with Severe Motor-Impairment

Various accessibility standards and guidelines exist, targeting different disabilities. Nonetheless persons suffering from Severe Motor Disabilities (SMD) are generally excluded from development efforts, mainly because of a lack in accessibility regulations, standards and developer support. This work presents Butterfleye, a novel developer-centric tool that facilitates the development of accessible gaze-driven web applications for SMD users. Butterfleye relies and builds upon a widely-adopted open-source front-end framework to incentivise frictionless developer adoption. Low cost eye-tracking devices are also examined to lower barriers for end-user adoption.We present an open-source library developed iteratively over a series of user-centric studies and report initial evidence of, and observations on, its effectiveness with SMD users.

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Alastair Chetcuti

Chris Porter

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Publication date: July 2016

Publication date (Print): July 2016

Pages: 1-3

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[0001]Malta Information Technology Agency

Gattard House, National Road

Blata l-Bajda, HMR 9010

[0002]Faculty of Information and Communication Technology

University of Malta

Msida, MSD 2080

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2016.91

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 30th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 30

Conference location: Bournemouth University, Poole, UK

Conference date: 11 - 15 July 2016

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Fusion

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1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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S. L. Henry 2005 Introduction to web accessibility Available from https://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/accessibility.php 14 March 2016
A. MurataK. HayashiM. MoriwakaT. Hayami 2012 Study on character input methods using eye-gaze input interface Proceedings of SICE Annual Conference (SICE), 2012 IEEE 1402 1407
The Accessibility Project 2016 The a11y project: A community-driven effort to make web accessibility easier Technical report 14 March 2016
The EyeTribe 2014 Eye tracking 101 Available from http://dev.theeyetribe.com/general/ 14 March 2016

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[1] S. L. Henry 2005 Introduction to web accessibility Available from https://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/accessibility.php 14 March 2016

[2] A. MurataK. HayashiM. MoriwakaT. Hayami 2012 Study on character input methods using eye-gaze input interface Proceedings of SICE Annual Conference (SICE), 2012 IEEE 1402 1407

[3] The Accessibility Project 2016 The a11y project: A community-driven effort to make web accessibility easier Technical report 14 March 2016

[4] The EyeTribe 2014 Eye tracking 101 Available from http://dev.theeyetribe.com/general/ 14 March 2016

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Butterfleye: Supporting the Development of Accessible Web Applications for Users with Severe Motor-Impairment