A visual impaired simulator to achieve embedded accessibility designs

The ever increasing of software technologies has brought closer technology to users with visual impaired inabilities. This diversification poses a real challenge to ¿authors¿ (developers and designers) when creating software that has to cope with a myriad of interaction situations, as well as specific directives for ensuring an accessible interaction. Presenting an advanced accessibility simulation tool, ¿authors¿ can obtain a better understanding of the accessibility constraints for visual impaired users within a Java Swing application by simulating each element. The proposed NetBeans-enabled plugin tool will assist them, with a minimal effort, to explore user-centered design and important accessibility issues for their Java Swing implementations.