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A Web Compliance Engineering framework to support the development of accessible Rich Internet Applications

A Web Compliance Engineering framework to support the development of accessible Rich Internet Applications

W4A 2008, Beijing, ChinaCarlos A. Velasco, Dimitar Denev, Dirk Stegemann and Yehya Mohamad

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Web Compliance

Electronic Ledger Storage Law (Japan)

11MEDIS-DC (Japan)

CanadianElectronic

Evidence Act

SECTON 17a-4 (USA)

HIPAA (USA)

FDA 21 CRF Part 11

ISO 18501/18509

Sarbanes-Oxley Act (USA)

AIPA (Italy)

GDPdU & GoBS (Germany)

BSI PD0008 (UK)

PublicRecords

Office (UK)

NF Z 42-013 (France)

FinancialServices

Authority (UK)Object 1

Basel IICapitalAccord

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Web Compliance Engineering

Application of quality assurance, testing and management processes and principles that ensure conformance of Web application standards, policy environments and other ad-hoc quality criteria, e.g. corporate identity, defined by involved actors.

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Limitations of Evaluation and Repair Accessibility Tools– Limited crawler capabilities for large Internet portals

• Dynamic page content– Limited or non-existent localization support

• Adaptation to different policy frameworks– Inability to analyze and repair dynamically

generated DOM elements– Lack of support for documentation of software

testing procedures or reporting languages like EARL

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RIAs and Accessibility

– Brings Web applications closer to desktop applications in terms of user experience

– Ad-hoc development and lack of standards– Absence of semantics in custom graphical

components– Re-purposing of HTML elements for

formatting and presentation– ARIA specification to solve the accessibility

issues

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Ontology for semantic description of compliance environments

– Test structure and hierarchy– Form of results' reports and their analysis– Implementation rule sets

• WCAG 1.0• WCAG 2.0• mobileOK

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Framework architecture

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Use Cases

– Enterprise Content Management Systems– RIA user– RIA provider– Web site commissioner– Usability expert

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Conclusions and future work

– Compliance framework able to tackle issues related to Rich Internet Applications

– Test suites for ARIA need to be defined– Design of algorithms to

• detect navigational components• infer relationships between scripting widgets• annotate user interface components

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Thank you for the attention !