Stressing the Boundaries of Mobile Accessibility
This addresses the issue of mobile accessibility for disabled people, but it is incremental as it builds on existing efforts by suggesting improvements to OS flaws.
The paper tackles the problem of insufficient accessibility features in mobile operating systems for disabled users, highlighting a case study where basic mobile applications were made accessible on an application-by-application basis.
Mobile devices gather the communication capabilities as no other gadget. Plus, they now comprise a wider set of applications while still maintaining reduced size and weight. They have started to include accessibility features that enable the inclusion of disabled people. However, these inclusive efforts still fall short considering the possibilities of such devices. This is mainly due to the lack of interoperability and extensibility of current mobile operating systems (OS). In this paper, we present a case study of a multi-impaired person where access to basic mobile applications was provided in an applicational basis. We outline the main flaws in current mobile OS and suggest how these could further empower developers to provide accessibility components. These could then be compounded to provide system-wide inclusion to a wider range of (multi)-impairments.