The aim of ACCAPTO is supporting app developers to integrate accessibility from the beginning. With model-driven development one can design and implement a accessible app prototyp.
ACCAPTO - ACCesibble APp TOolkit
Accapto is a command line tool that creates a basic app structure from an xml input file. model.xml -> accapto -> Android Prototyp -> Android Studio
https://github.com/elmarkrainz/accapto Krainz, E., and K. Miesenberger. "Accapto, a Generic Design and Development Toolkit for Accessible Mobile Apps." Studies in health technology and informatics 242 (2017): 660.Example for Accessibility in Android
This project shows some example to implement accessible Android apps. Some ideas are inspired form this project https://github.com/googlesamples/android-BasicAccessibility. Features
https://github.com/elmarkrainz/AccaptoAccessibilityExample
To generate an accesible android app prototype, one needs a model description in XML.
For easy modeling a web-based model-editor was created. (conzept: Elmar Krainz, implementation Bernhard Kober)
This website is part of my Phd thesis on model-driven development for accessible mobile apps.
Contact:
Elmar Krainz: elmar.krainz -at- fh-joanneum.at
List of Papers -tbd
CV -tbd