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En primer lugar quiero agradecer a mi mujer, Yolanda, y a mi familia todo el apoyo que me han dem... more En primer lugar quiero agradecer a mi mujer, Yolanda, y a mi familia todo el apoyo que me han demostrado a lo largo de todos estos largos años que han transcurrido durante la preparación de esta Tesis doctoral. En segundo lugar quiero agradecer a mis directores de tesis, César Montes y Fernando Alonso Amo (este último no presente por absurdas normas de la Universidad), todo el esfuerzo que han dedicado para lograr que este trabajo tenga la calidad adecuada. Mi tercer agradecimiento es para mis compañeros de trabajo, en orden alfabético: Ángel Lucas, Chema, Genoveva, Paloma, Pepe y Sonia. Sin vuestro apoyo y aportaciones este trabajo no habría sido posible. También quiero aprovechar la ocasión para agradecer la amistad que me han ofrecido desde hace muchos años mis compañeros de carrera: Camino, Enrique y Juanma, y sus compañeros Lorena y Vicente. Por último quiero hacer un agradecimiento general a todos los que olvido pero seguro merecerían aparecer en esta página. Gracias a todos.

2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science), 2018

A survey of 351 programmers, including people with dyslexia, has found that programmers with dysl... more A survey of 351 programmers, including people with dyslexia, has found that programmers with dyslexia are 33.4% more productive if they use a visual programming language. This paper presents important aspects of the profile of programmers with dyslexia, introduces the most commonly used textual programming languages (TPL) by a group of programmers, classifies the 31 most common visual programming languages (VPL) for the study group, and analyzes some technical and facilitation features to support the needs of programmers with dyslexia, in five of these languages that have been considered current and relevant for the purposes of this research. The visual programming language Alice has been selected as the language to be included in a comparison experiment with the Java programming language. Results of the experiment establish preferences and levels of effectiveness of Alice against the other language, according to the performance of a group of programmers who participated in the experiment.

Tradumàtica tecnologies de la traducció, 2010

Web content accessibility for people with functional diversity is essential for building and inte... more Web content accessibility for people with functional diversity is essential for building and integrating society. Thus, it is important to take into account accessibility when localizing accessible web content. This paper describes the key web content accessibility requirements from the localization viewpoint.

Etsi Workshop on the Human Side of Technology Human Factors in Ict Etsi Workshop on the Human Side of Technology Human Factors in Ict 2 3 Junio 2014 Sophia Antipolis Niza Francia, Jun 3, 2014

Uxspain 2014 Uxspain 2014 23 Y 24 De Mayo De 2014 Granada Espana, May 24, 2014

Integracion Revista De La Federacion De Implantados Cocleares Issn 1137 6511 2012 01 Vol Null N 61, 2012

LaTo r r O rn d a UC UNE n i53010:2003 [1] recogía requisitos para el subtitulado V™»™»!^^*™^^ *'... more LaTo r r O rn d a UC UNE n i53010:2003 [1] recogía requisitos para el subtitulado V™»™»!^^*™^^ *' resultado de varios años de trabajo en el Subcomité 5 del Comité Técnico de Normalización (CTN) 153 de AENOR. Los cambios en los últimos años err cuanto a los medios audiovisuales llevaron a dicho Subcomité a plantearse en el año 2?08Csibtod de actual¡Z ar los contenidos de esta norma, con el fin de adaptarse a nuevas tecnolog.as, como los DVD, la televisión digital o la televisión emitida a través de Internet.

Aenor Revista De La Normalizacion Y La Certificacion, 2014

In the 1956 Darmouth College conference two aspeels of the definition of Artificial Intelligence ... more In the 1956 Darmouth College conference two aspeels of the definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI) were already emphasized: a) The separation between the knowledge and the procedures using it. This separation led to define the basic architecture of Expert Systems, which is divided inlo Knowledge Base (KB) and Inference Engine. This architecture is still in use as a base. even for the design of complex systems. b) The equivalence of the different knowledge representation· formalisms. This means that, theoretically. all the knowledge representation formalisms should have the same semantic capabilities. From the previous concept an idea arose in Knowledge Engineering: Building generic knowledge representations that could allow to represent any developed KB using any formalism. to work with it without worrying about the actual formalism used in the construction of the KB. This objective that has not yet been reached, although research in this area still goes on as shown in the follow...

Dentro de los instrumentos que posee la sociedad para lograrla inclusión de todas las personas de... more Dentro de los instrumentos que posee la sociedad para lograrla inclusión de todas las personas destacan la legislación y las normas técnicas. En este capítulo se recopilan actividades legislativas y de normalizaciones, tanto internacionales como nacionales para promover una sociedad de la información inclusiva para todos. Dentro de las acciones legislativas destacan la sección 508 del Acta de Rehabilitación de Estados Unidos, los planes eEuropa de la Unión Europea y las leyes españolas de Servicios de la Sociedad de la Información y de Comercio Electrónico, y de Igualdad de Oportunidades, No Discriminación y Accesibilidad Universal de las Personas con. Discapacidad. En cuanto a las actividades de normalización técnica, destacan las normas internacionales de accesibilidad al software de ISO y de accesibilidad web del Consorcio de la Web, así como las normas españolas de accesibilidad en informática: hardware, software y contenidos web.

The evaluation of the accessibility of a web site requires the participation of human evaluators,... more The evaluation of the accessibility of a web site requires the participation of human evaluators, because most of the points to be checked cannot be automatically evaluated. This paper presents the second version of HERA, an on-line tool that provides support for the manual evaluation of the accessibility of web pages. This description includes the justification for a newer version, the technologies used, and the main functionality of HERA 2.0.

Interactions, 2012

Public policy increasingly plays a role in influencing the work that we do as HCI researchers, in... more Public policy increasingly plays a role in influencing the work that we do as HCI researchers, interaction designers, and practitioners. "Public policy" is a broad term that includes both government policy and policy within non-governmental organizations, such as standards bodies. The Interacting with Public Policy forum focuses on topics at the intersection of human-computer interaction and public policy. Jonathan Lazar, Editor

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software Development For Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-Exclusion (Dsai 2012), 2012

CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2013

There is an increasing interest in the intersection of human-computer interaction and public poli... more There is an increasing interest in the intersection of human-computer interaction and public policy. This day-long workshop will examine successes and challenges related to public policy and human computer interaction, in order to provide a forum to create a baseline of examples and to start the process of writing a white paper on the topic.

RIED. Revista Iberoamericana de Educación a Distancia, 2012

En la actualidad existe un gran número de estándares que tratan sobre la accesibilidad de los sis... more En la actualidad existe un gran número de estándares que tratan sobre la accesibilidad de los sistemas de e-Learning, desde diversos puntos de vista, como los modelos de usuario, los escenarios de aprendizaje, las preferencias de interacción, las capacidades de los dispositivos y metadatos para especificar cómo entregar cualquier recurso de acuerdo a las necesidades de los usuarios. También existen otros estándares relevantes en el campo de la accesibilidad y la usabilidad del software. Cada uno de estos estándares representa un punto de vista diferente con su propio conjunto de objetivos y alcance, lo que dificulta comprender las relaciones que existen entre todos ellos. Este artículo presentará una recopilación actualizada de los principales estándares relacionados con la accesibilidad, usabilidad y adaptabilidad de los sistemas de e-Learning en el contexto del proyecto de investigación A2UN@, que está centrado en atender las necesidades de accesibilidad y adaptación de todos, en la Educación Superior.

IEEE Transactions on Education, 2011

Abstract. Currently there are many standards that impinge on accessibility issues regarding users... more Abstract. Currently there are many standards that impinge on accessibility issues regarding users' models, learning scenarios, interaction preferences, devices capabilities, metadata for specifying the delivery of any resource to meet users' needs, and software accessibility ...

Interactions, 2014

Public policy plays an influential role in the work we do as HCI researchers, interaction designe... more Public policy plays an influential role in the work we do as HCI researchers, interaction designers, and practitioners. "Public policy," a broad term, includes both government policy and policy within non-governmental organizations. This forum focuses on topics at the intersection of human-computer interaction and public policy. --- Jonathan Lazar, Editor

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2009

The most adequate approach for benchmarking web accessibility is manual expert evaluation supplem... more The most adequate approach for benchmarking web accessibility is manual expert evaluation supplemented by automatic analysis tools. But manual evaluation has a high cost and is impractical to be applied on large web sites. In reality, there is no choice but to rely on automated tools when reviewing large web sites for accessibility. The question is: to what extent the results from automatic evaluation of a web site and individual web pages can be used as an approximation for manual results? This paper presents the initial results of an investigation aimed at answering this question. He have performed both manual and automatic evaluations of the accessibility of web pages of two sites and we have compared the results. In our data set automatically retrieved results could most definitely be used as an approximation manual evaluation results.

CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems on - CHI EA '13, 2013

ABSTRACT There is an increasing interest in the intersection of human-computer interaction and pu... more ABSTRACT There is an increasing interest in the intersection of human-computer interaction and public policy. This day-long workshop will examine successes and challenges related to public policy and human computer interaction, in order to provide a forum to create a baseline of examples, and to start the process of writing a white paper on the topic.