Introducing accessibility in the Web services domain

The ever increasing diversification of Web services and software applications poses a real challenge to 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. Utilizing an advanced web services accessibility assessment tool, they can obtain a better understanding of the accessibility constraints for people with disabilities within Web services and software application´s user interfaces. The proposed Web services assessment tool will assist them, with a minimal effort, to explore user-centered design and important accessibility issues for their software implementations. In an effort to solve such issues, this paper takes a step forward and introduces the notion of accessibility in the web service domain, in order to enhance web services with accessibility features capable to ensure that HCI through applications utilizing them is accessible.