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

Abstract

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.

Contributors

Alastair Chetcuti

Chris Porter

Conference

Publication date: July 2016

Publication date (Print): July 2016

Pages: 1-3

Affiliations

Malta Information Technology Agency

Gattard House, National Road

Blata l-Bajda, HMR 9010

Faculty of Information and Communication Technology

University of Malta

Msida, MSD 2080

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2016.91

Copyright statement: © Chetcuti et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings British HCI 2016 – Fusion, Bournemouth, UK

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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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Product Information: 1477-9358BCS Learning & Development

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing