Investigando o uso de um guia de acessibilidade de interface web com foco nos aspectos do autismo no design e avaliação de aplicações.

Abstract

The accessibility of users with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) draws attention to the academic environment because these users have different levels of ability to use because they present difficulties in relation to social interaction, communication, as well as a limited repertoire of interests and activities and they may not understand or perceive certain content, terms and figures present in the application interface. Over time, user interface accessibility guidelines have been created for users with Autism Spectrum Disorder, however most software developers do not care about the accessibility of these users. A survey carried out by Britto and Pizzollato (2016) indicated a low concern of the software developers with the accessibility of people with TEA. A survey by Britto and Pizzollato (2018) indicated that there are some points to improve in the guidelines proposed by them. According to research carried out in the project on the Design and Development of Affordable Technologies (ProDTeA) on the campus of Russas with 52 parents of children with autism spectrum disorder aged 2 to 14 years from all regions of Brazil, this application is the more used by children. This work will report on: (1) assessing the accessibility of mobile application interfaces guided by the guidelines of the Web Interface Accessibility Guide focused on aspects of Autism (GAIA), (2) redesigning the interface of a mobile application evaluated according to the and (3) an experiment to evaluate the ease of use of the Autism Accessibility Guide web-focused on aspects of Autism with the YouTube application accessibility inspection. All this work was carried out with the help of the students of the ProDTeA extension project that aims to develop applications accessible to society. This document will present some points to improve on the GAIA guidelines and accessibility of the YouTube app. This work aims to encourage developers to be concerned with the accessibility of users with Autism Spectrum Disorder and to encourage the production of works that facilitate the use of accessibility guidelines of the application interface for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder.