ACCESSIBLE - Accessibility Assessment Simulation Environment for New Applications Design and Development

ACCESSIBLE - Accessibility Assessment Simulation Environment for New Applications Design and Development
Duration: 36 months
Start: 01 September 2008 Finish: 29 February 2012
Funded under FP7, Information and Communication Technologies

Accessibility is an urgent issue nowadays. Authorities and experts are putting a lot of effort on pushing forward accessibility of software applications but, despite this fact, ICT applications and systems are not fully accessible yet. The triggering idea behind ACCESSIBLE is to contribute for better accessibility for all citizens, to increase the use of standards, and to develop an assessment simulation environment (including a suite of accessibility analysing tools as well as developer-aid tools) to assess efficiently, easily and rapidly the accessibility and viability of software applications for all user groups.ACCESSIBLE will exploit the technologies behind the recent expansion of accessibility tools and standardisation methodologies, in order to provide an integrated simulation assessment environment for supporting the production of accessible software applications mobile or not.

This will enable large organisations, SMEs or individuals (developers, designers, etc.) to produce software products of superior accessibility and quality, accompanied with appropriate measures and proposals for best practice. The proposed system will be demonstrated in the four pilots of ACCESSIBLE for the assessment of: a) Mobile applications, b) Web applications, c) Web services (mainly focusing on infomobility services), and d) description languages (e.g. UML, SDL, etc.).
The Consortium consists of 11 participants from European Countries, with high competence related to the ACCESSIBLE objectives, in scientific, technological and application areas. The reason for such an extended partnership is the effort to create a synergy between complementary expertise on ACCESSIBLE-related activities and to exploit a pan-European approach in order to realise the project challenge.

MCA will contribute to the user requirements collection, the piloting as well as the dissemination activities.
More information on www.accessible-project.eu &
www.accessible-eu.org.