• 재활복지
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.181-205
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• 2014

Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning established the mobile application accessibility guideline on 2011 to help people with disabilities to use mobile applications, and has intimated it for governmental and public institutions to utilize. This paper presents an analysis of relationship between success criteria in the current mobile application accessibility guideline and the issues raised by users based on user evaluation performed on 5 mobile applications. Analysis results show that the current mobile application accessibility guideline doesn't apply accessibility requirements thoroughly because some mobile applications could not be accessed by users although they are fulfilling the guideline. To fully provide mobile application accessibility, success criteria such as keyboard accessibility, control size, label and time limit that are raised from the result of user evaluation need to be added to the current guideline. And the guideline need to be amended with modification or elimination of some success criteria.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.05a
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• pp.661-664
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• 2014

Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets as the prevalence of common, greatly increasing the use of mobile applications. However, unlike PC, the interface of mobile device is limited, too difficult to use the disalbed and the elderly. Goverment 'Mobile Application Accessibility Guidelines' was enacted in order to guarantee the Disabled and elderly people's accessibility, In this paper, Analysis of these guidelines and points to consider when designing a mobile app examined. In addition, the accessibility of Google and Apple Applications are examined.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.307-314
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• 2017

In this study, we propose a method to improve the guideline for accessibility of mobile applications based on the results of manual evaluation of 8 mobile online shopping applications which are widely used in Korea. 13 items of mobile online shopping application were found to have low compliance rate, and 5 items such as response time control were observed and there was no corresponding items. In the current mobile application accessibility guidelines, it is necessary to delete the check items that are not relevant or meaningless, and to provide additional logical items such as logical ordering and form creation, and to improve the accessibility of mobile applications, The government should make efforts to develop and disseminate the development guide, and to resolve the digital devides.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.25-44
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• 2014

This research evaluates the accessibility of the mobile applications for the South Korean libraries based on the accessibility guideline from the Ministry of Security and Public Administration. In order to enhance the credibility of the evaluation, this current research covers both the accessibility for the visually impaired and the accessibility for the people without disabilities. The research found four main results. First, we found that only 21 libraries (31%) provide alternative texts. Out of the 21 libraries, only one provide alternative texts across all sections of the mobile applications, including the main page, data search, information assistance, etc. Second, most of the mobile applications provide contents in texts, and the subtitles, sign language, blinking and background music provided as required or recommended standard by the guideline lack correlation. Third, alternative texts, focus movement, accessibility of operating system, button motion control, spacing between control and alarm functions must follow the standard guideline for the people with disabilities to use the mobile applications. Fourth, follow-up research on the development of accessibility standard for library mobile application is necessary in order to enable people with disabilities to freely use the library mobile applications.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.575-582
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• 2012

Mobile SNS like facebook is famous as an app which users cooperate others and share information without regard to time and place. But it is necessary to evaluate the mobile app accessibility in view of the disabled and the aged to check if they get appropriate interface service to use such a popular app. Mobile app accessibility is an indicator of equal opportunity to mobile app for all users regardless of cognitive and physical attribute. Therefore, this paper evaluates accessibility of facebook and kakaotalk mobile SNS, apprehend the status of conform to the manual, and suggest an improving way, based on 'mobile application accessibility guideline' announced by government and 'mobile application (Android) accessibiliy checking manual(v1.0)' by National Information society agency.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.125-131
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• 2014

This study is aim to investigate and propose ways to improve real condition of the accessibility compliance that is required to use mobile applications for special education student with a disabilities. Especially, expert examined some mobile applications with 12 items out of 15 mobile application accessibility guidelines from Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning which is helpful for people with physical disabilities such as difficulty in seeing, hearing, and upper limb. Based on the results of expert evaluation, we analyzed the problem for mobile applications without accessibility compliance and presents improvement plans for people with disabilities to use mobile applications.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.187-198
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• 2017

In this study, we analyzed the accessibility of open platform Android mobile banking applications, based on Korean mobile application accessibility KS standard, Section 508 technical standard of Rehabilitation Act, and European BBC guidelines. Experimental result showed that there are no mobile banking applications of 8 commercial banks in Korea that satisfy all guidelines of three standards. Typical violations included missing alternative text, keyboard focus violations, control size and spacing non-compliance, and low contrast ratio. These violations are fatal in that they make the accessibility of the blind, the disabled and the low vision and the elderly impossible. The reason that mobile banking applications do not comply with accessibility is that mobile application developers and providers have low awareness of accessibility and do not know how to implement accessibility properly. Comparing Korea mobile application accessibility guidelines with the revised standard of the Section 508 of Rehabilitation Act and the BBC standard, many guidelines are missing. Also, evaluation criteria are ambiguous and abstract, making it difficult for developers to refer specifically. Therefore, improving mobile application accessibility requires developer and government efforts and complementation of standards.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.195-201
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• 2015

In this study, IT education contents have been developed based on the u-Learning approach for people with hearing impairment, focusing on allowing the user to learn from anywhere and anytime. Specifically, this study applies HTML5 to implementing IT education contents(JSP, Oracle) for the deaf because HTML5 enables the learner to access the contents through both web and mobile device on various platforms including android, Mac OS, and PC etc. The results of this study are as follows: First, the online computer courses are mostly supposed to be compatible with diverse types of mobile devices. However, some of the contents could not be run on applications residing in web and mobile devices because the contents tend to be developed using FLASH. HTML5 is the effective way to overcome the compatibility problem. Second, FLASH and HTML5 contents authoring tools have been compared in terms of their strong and weak points by applying the developed contents to those tools. The study also suggests that the future work would be needed in order to implement wide variety of event functions with HTML5. Lastly, design strategies enabling access through web and mobile devices have been analyzed in accordance with u-Learning design guidelines for the deaf and mobile application accessibility guidelines. However, in the latter case, the future work regarding design guidelines needs to be conducted to improve the educational accessibility depending on the level of impairment.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.29 no.7
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• pp.62-72
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• 2012

UI 분야 국제 표준화 활동은 ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC35가 주도하며 키보드 자판 배열이나 GUI에서 사용이 되는 아이콘, 위젯, 등의 국제 표준화와 같은 전통적인 활동을 바탕으로, 다양한 언어와 문화의 장벽을 극복하기 위한 국제 표준화 활동, 장애인과 고령자의 접근성 향상 및 보장을 위한 국제 표준화 활동과 직관적이고 풍성한 기능을 가진 미래형 UI에 대한 국제 표준화 활동을 펼치고 있다. SC35 한택위원회는 우리나라가 확보하고 주도하는 미래 지향적인 UI 기술을 국제 표준에 반영하려는 활동에 초점을 맞추고 있다. 본고에서는 SC35 중심의 국제 표준화 활동을 소개하고, 우리나라가 추진 중인 웹 브라우저나 문서 뷰어를 위한 마우스 제스쳐 기반의 UI 국제 표준과 3차원 손 동작인식 기반의 3D UI 국제 표준에 대하여 설명한다. 그리고, 우리정부에서 제정 고시한 장애인들이나 고령자 등을 위한 모바일 기기용 애플리케이션의 접근성 향상 및 보장을 위한 지침을 소개한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.85-95
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• 2011

Recently, sudden interests of mobile cloud computing as well as conventional internet environment are rapidly increased as cloud computing spread out in our web society. Mobile devices including smart phone are rapidly changing in a wholesale way that covers hardwares, applications, and services. However, the Internet access using mobile device is not quite smooth in this local mobile internet environment which suffers from lack of understanding and observance of Web Standards. Although most of domestic web sites are developed focusing on various functions and eye-catching designs, this should became one of the main factors that make the usability and accessability decrease when accessing web with smart phones or table PCs. Therefore, this paper suggested a web interface that considered usability and accessability under mobile cloud environment and we tried to prove it via usability test. It could be found that there was an improvement of usability of interface of the main page that has been optimized to the mobile device environment suggested from the previous research we present, but this paper aimed to prove a usability improvement of total website as a whole by performing the usability test on the entire website. Selecting a special website optimized for mobile cloud computing, we prove an improvement of usability and accessibility. Therefore, we offer a guideline about user interface design applications to developers or companies who want to construct mobile website.