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Designing and Developing Accessible Java Swing Applications

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2010)

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Abstract

Existing development tools provide little out-of-the-box assistance in order to design and develop accessible ICT Java solutions for impaired users. Two new approximation simulation tools are presented in an attempt to achieve accessibility design and development of Java Swing applications.

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  1. Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, 6th km Charilaou-Thermi Road, P.O. Box 60361, Thessaloniki, GR-57001, Greece

    Theofanis Oikonomou, Konstantinos Votis & Dimitrios Tzovaras

  2. Pattern Recognition Laboratory, Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, Rio Patras

    Konstantinos Votis

  3. Sun Microsystems, Inc., 17 Network Circle, MPK17-101, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA

    Peter Korn

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, University of Linz, Altenbergerstraße 49, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Studienzentrum fuer Sehgeschaedigte, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

    Joachim Klaus

  3. fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Institute integrated study, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, A 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

  4. University of San Francisco The Universal Math Access Lab, 281 Masonic San Francisco, CA 94117, USA

    Arthur Karshmer

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Oikonomou, T., Votis, K., Tzovaras, D., Korn, P. (2010). Designing and Developing Accessible Java Swing Applications. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W., Karshmer, A. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6179. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14097-6_30

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