Towards a checklist for quality assurance in accessibility attributes of emerging VR and AR technologies
Abstract
Emerging technologies are increasingly contributing to people's daily lives. With great revolutionary power and aggregation of its potential, a need in software factories is to add inclusion features for people with disabilities in software products. In an ad-hoc search of the literature for software quality material aimed at ensuring accessibility in software development for emerging technologies, such as guidelines and best practices, an important lack was identified: a Verification and Validation (V&V) checklist for technologies emerging. As a first step in this direction, this article aims to highlight the importance of accessibility in emerging technologies in the V&V stages of software engineering to serve a broad and diverse audience in a checklist that derives best practices to consider in the development of emerging software for Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR).
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