ICSE 2024
Fri 12 - Sun 21 April 2024 Lisbon, Portugal
Thu 18 Apr 2024 15:00 - 15:15 at Glicínia Quartin - Requirements 1 Chair(s): Liliana Pasquale

A UserWay study in 2021 indicates that an annual global e-commerce revenue loss of approximately $16 billion can be attributed to inaccessible websites and applications. According to the 2023 WebAIM study, only 3.7% of the world’s top one million website homepages are fully accessible. This shows that many software developers use poor coding practices that don’t adhere to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). This research centers on software professionals and their role in addressing accessibility. This work seeks to understand (a) who within the software development community actively practices accessibility, (b) when and how accessibility is considered in the software development lifecycle, (c) the various challenges encountered in building accessible software, and (d) the resources required by software professionals to enhance product accessibility. Our survey of 269 software professionals from India sheds light on the pressing need for accessibility education within the software industry. A substantial majority (69.9%, N=269) of respondents express the need for training materials, workshops, and bootcamps to enhance their accessibility skills. We present a list of actionable recommendations that can be implemented within the industry to promote accessibility awareness and skills. We also open-source our raw data for further research, encouraging continued exploration in this domain.

Thu 18 Apr

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14:00 - 15:30
14:00
15m
Talk
ReFAIR: Toward a Context-Aware Recommender for Fairness Requirements Engineering
Research Track
Carmine Ferrara University of Salerno, Francesco Casillo Università di Salerno, Carmine Gravino University of Salerno, Andrea De Lucia University of Salerno, Fabio Palomba University of Salerno
Pre-print
14:15
15m
Talk
Analyzing and Debugging Normative Requirements via Satisfiability CheckingACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
Research Track
Nick Feng University of Toronto, Lina Marsso University of Toronto, Sinem Getir Yaman University of York, UK, Yesugen Baatartogtokh Smith College, Reem Ayad University of Toronto, Victória Oldemburgo de Mello University of Toronto, Beverley Townsend University of York, Isobel Standen University of York, Ioannis Stefanakos University of York, Calum Imrie University of York, Genaína Nunes Rodrigues University of Brasília, Ana Cavalcanti University of York, Radu Calinescu University of York, UK, Marsha Chechik University of Toronto
14:30
15m
Talk
Teaching Digital Accessibility to Industry Professionals using the Community of Practice framework: An Experience Report
Software Engineering Education and Training
Parthasarathy PD BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus, Swaroop Joshi BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus
14:45
15m
Talk
An Experience Report on Using Video-Creation Tasks in Requirements-Engineering Education
Software Engineering Education and Training
Richard May Harz University Wernigerode, Germany, Johanna Daher Harz University Wernigerode, Germany, Jacob Krüger Eindhoven University of Technology, Thomas Leich Harz University of Applied Sciences, Germany
15:00
15m
Talk
Exploring the Need of Accessibility Education in the Software Industry: Insights from a Survey of Software Professionals in India
Software Engineering Education and Training
Parthasarathy PD BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus, Swaroop Joshi BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus
15:15
7m
Talk
ValidGen: A Tool for Automatic Generation of Validation Scripts to Support Rapid Requirements Validation
Demonstrations
Hongyue Pan BeiHang Uviversity, Yilong Yang Beihang University