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Current mobile web applications (apps) can be accessed using a mobile browser through a URL, or, packaged using specific packaging tools and libraries as native apps. To access these apps, Visually Impaired People (VIP) relay on screen readers that come built-in with smart phones. Among the well-known mobile phones’ screen readers is VoiceOver by Apple. In this paper we discuss the results of testing the accessibility of mobile web apps via Voice-Over and observe its performance. As a result of this observation we suggest some basic guidelines for designing mobile web apps.
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Al-Subaihin, A.A., Al-Khalifa, A.S., Al-Khalifa, H.S. (2013). Accessibility of Mobile Web Apps by Screen Readers of Touch-Based Mobile Phones. In: Matera, M., Rossi, G. (eds) Trends in Mobile Web Information Systems. MobiWIS 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 183. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03737-0_5
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