A Usability and Accessibility Oriented Development Process*
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چکیده
Usability has become a critical quality factor of software systems. Although it was defined as one attribute of software quality in the first quality decompositions at the end of the 70’s, it has not been really considered and it has been historically relegated in relation to other quality factors such as efficiency, reliability, safety and so one. For this reason, most software development methodologies do not include mechanisms to take into account this critical factor in the software process. Fortunately, nowadays the point of view is changing and not only the original concept of usability is getting more and more important but also new concepts are emerging such as universal usability, accessibility and so on. In this paper we aim to analyze this problem and give a step forward proposing a usability and accessibility-oriented methodological framework which takes into account these criteria from the very beginning of the software development process.
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