Part of the School of Computer Science’s Information Management Group.
Along with partners in both academia and industry, the Web Ergonomics Lab is participating in an Open Source Collaboration whereby tools and prototypes that are created as part of our research are made available to the wider community.
Members of the WEL are active members of the Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF). ACTF is a framework that serves as an extensible infrastructure upon which developers can build a variety of utilities that help to evaluate and enhance the accessibility of applications and content for people with disabilities. A collection of example utilities will also be provided which were created on top of the framework such as compliance validation tools, assistive technology simulation applications, usability visualization tools, unit-testing utilities, and alternative accessible interfaces for applications. The ACTF componentry and the utilities will be integrated into a single tooling environment on top of the Eclipse framework. The framework components will function cooperatively with each other and with other Eclipse projects to provide a comprehensive development environment for creating accessible applications and content.