Accessibility in development of free software projects

Author

Domingos Alves, Daniel ; Cagnin, Maria Istela ; Barroso Paiva, Debora Maria

Author_Institution

Fac. de Comput., Univ. Fed. de Mato, Grosso do Sul Campo Grande, Brazil

fYear

2014

fDate

15-19 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

12

Abstract

In recent years the use of free software has been considered in private enterprise, government agencies and end users. It is also remarkable the increase of projects and free software communities in Brazil. However, there are concerns about accessibility, because despite the growth in utilization and number of free software projects, accessibility is not always regarded in the software development process. In this article, we present the results of a study on accessibility in free software development that sought to identify how free software projects in Brazil are dealing with accessibility. Furthermore, we proposed changes in a specific process for the development of free software in order to insert accessibility elements.

Keywords

public domain software; software engineering; Brazil; end users; free software project development; government agencies; private enterprise; software development process; Abstracts; Context modeling; Electronic mail; Guidelines; Portals; Software; Visualization; Accessibility guidelines; Accessibility in free software; Accessibility requirements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computing Conference (CLEI), 2014 XL Latin American

Conference_Location

Montevideo

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEI.2014.6965154

Filename

6965154