The document summarizes a presentation given at the 1st International AEGIS Conference in Sevilla, Spain in October 2010. The presentation introduced SACAST, a tool being developed to support software accessibility conformity assessments. SACAST is a client-server application that allows users to manually evaluate software products for compliance with ISO 9241-171 accessibility standards. Future work plans to improve usability, add functionality for workgroups, and enhance complexity management and reporting.

1. 1st International AEGIS Conference
Sevilla, Spain. October 2010
Fernando Alonso, José Luis Fuertes, Ángel Lucas González, Loïc Martínez
DLSIIS. Facultad de Informática. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Spain

2. I
Introduction
R
T Requirements for an accessibility evaluation tool
C
The tool: SACAST
Conclusions and future work
Towards a tool for supporting software accessibility conformity assessment

3. I
Demand for
accessible
software
R
Requirements
T for an Public
accessibility procurement
evaluation (M/376)
tool
C
ISO 9241-171
Conformity
Software
Assessment
accessibility
Towards a tool for supporting software accessibility conformity assessment

4. Need to demonstrate fulfilment
I of specified requirements
R Information on selected
Selection items
T
Information on fulfilment of
Determination specified requirements
C
yes
Review and Fulfilment of specified Surveillance
requirements demonstrated
attestation needed?
no
End
Towards a tool for supporting software accessibility conformity assessment

5. I
Review and
Selection Determination Surveillance
R attestation
T R1. R3. Automatic R8. Re-
R6. Result
Decomposition and manual evaluation
aggregation
and sampling evaluation support
C
R4. Recording
R2. Checklist R7. Report
of detailed
management generation
results
R5. Workgroup
management
Towards a tool for supporting software accessibility conformity assessment

6. I
Client/Server application
R • Client: user interface
• Server: stores information about ISO 9241-171, about
T
software products and about evaluations
• Using PHP/MySQL
C
Functionality
• To perform a complete manual conformity assessment
• No automatic tests
• For each function of a software product
• User interface: accessible and easy to use (by experts in
accessibility evaluation)
Towards a tool for supporting software accessibility conformity assessment

7. I
Review and
Selection Determination Surveillance
R attestation
T R1. R3. Automatic R8. Re-
R6. Result
Decomposition and manual evaluation
aggregation
and sampling evaluation support
C
R4. Recording
R2. Checklist R7. Report
of detailed
management generation
results
R5. Workgroup
management
Towards a tool for supporting software accessibility conformity assessment

8. I 1 2 3 6
R
5
T 4
C
7
Towards a tool for supporting software accessibility conformity assessment

9. I Conclusions
R • Need of support tools for conformity assessment
• Set of requirements defined in previous work
T • We present on-going work: a prototype
C Future work
• Evaluate usability of the tool
• Increment tool functionality. Plan:
• Workgroups (R5, R6)
• Complexity management (R1, R2)
• Report generation and surveillance (R7, R8)
Towards a tool for supporting software accessibility conformity assessment

10. 1st International AEGIS Conference
Sevilla, Spain. October 2010
Loïc Martínez-Normand (loic@fi.upm.es)
Acknowledgement: Álvaro de Vicente