Human centered design processes for interactive systems, ISO 13407 (1999), states: “Human-Centered design is an approach to interactive system development that focuses specifically on making systems usable. It is a multi-disciplinary activity.” In UCD, all “development proceeds with the user as the center of focus.”
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A Framework for Accessible and Usable Web Applications
Lourdes Moreno (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain), Elena Castro (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain), Dolores Cuadra (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain), and Paloma Martinez (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain)
Copyright: © 2008
|Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-857-4.ch025
Abstract
Internet growth makes use feasible by an increased number of people around the world. For this reason, several approaches must be taken in order to get a universal access for all kinds of users, independent of their capabilities. Nowadays, it is difficult for disabledd people to use the Web in the same way as non-disabledd people, even though the use of this technology is a right for everybody and more in the public administration scope in which, a lot of services must be available for users and on a correct way.