A unified methodology for the evaluation of accessibility and usability of mobile applications

This article reports a unified methodology
developed to evaluate the accessibility and usability of
mobile computing applications, which is intended to
guarantee universal access as far as possible. As a basis for
the methodology, this paper presents an analysis of the
accessibility guidelines, conducted to take into account the
specificity of mobile systems, as well as a set of usability
heuristics, specifically devised for mobile computing.
Finally, it presents the results of the application of the
proposed methodology to applications that have been semiautomatically
developed by the MAIS Designer, a new
design tool that provides applications suited to different
mobile devices.