A web compliance engineering framework to support the development of accessible rich internet applications

Abstract

Web Compliance Engineering is a new field within Web Engineering that deals with the increasing complexity of Internet applications, the wide variety of mobile devices, the richer user interfaces coming out of Web 2.0 and the quality assurance processes for non-uniform policy environments worldwide. Considering these issues from the perspective of Web accessibility, the borders of its traditional components [6] are blurred as users become content providers. We present in this paper a Web compliance framework developed to support both users and application developers to create accessible content for Rich Internet Applications. This framework is an evolution of traditional evaluation tools aimed at supporting compliance as a quality process, which ensures its successful implementation in production environments.