An empirical study of design degradation: How software projects get worse over time. Iftekhar Ahmed, Umme Ayda Mannan, Rahul Gopinath, and Carlos Jensen.Gupta, Vipin Tyagi, Jan Flusser, Tuncer Ören, and Rekha Kashyap (Eds.). In Advances in Computing and Data Sciences, Mayank Singh, P.K. Evaluating Accessibility and Usability of Airline Websites. Gaurav Agrawal, Devendra Kumar, Mayank Singh, and Diksha Dani.We conclude the paper with several observations that form the foundation for future research and development. We find that due to the disproportionately small number of users with disabilities, user ratings and app popularity are not indicative of the extent of accessibility issues in apps. We finally investigate user ratings and comments on app stores. We find that in large part developers are unaware of accessibility design principles and analysis tools, and the organizations in which they are employed do not place a premium on accessibility.

We then investigate the developer sentiments through a survey aimed at understanding the root causes of so many accessibility issues. We find that almost all apps are riddled with accessibility issues, hindering their use by disabled people. First, we analyze the prevalence of accessibility issues in over 1, 000 Android apps. This paper presents the results of a large-scale empirical study aimed at understanding accessibility of Android apps from three complementary perspectives. Ability to use mobile apps is important for everyone, but arguably even more so for approximately 15% of the world population with disabilities. Mobile apps are an integral component of our daily life.

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