Crowd sourcing accessibility rendering system for non-accessible applications

• US 10,379,840 B2
• Filed: 10/19/2017
• Issued: 08/13/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, Sharon, Huang, Louis, Lin, Gary, Lin, Pei-Yi, Shi, Jin
• Primary Examiner(s): Vo, Ted T.
• Application Number:
  US15/788,525
• Publication Number:
  US 20190121633A1
• Time in Patent Office: 663 Days
• Field of Search: 717106-107, 717124-128, 717168-173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/656 while running
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44526 Plug-ins; Add-ons

Abstract

Techniques facilitating a crowd-sourcing accessibility rendering system for non-accessible applications are provided. A system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise an interaction component that monitors one or more interactions between one or more entities and a defined application. The computer executable components can also comprise an analysis component that determines accessibility related information associated with the defined application based on received feedback from an entity of the one or more entities. Further, the computer executable components can comprise an adjustment component that creates a modified application based on the one or more interactions and the accessibility related information of the defined application. The defined application is a non-disability accessible application and the modified application is a disability accessible application.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a memory that stores computer executable components; and

a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory, wherein the computer executable components comprise;

an interaction component that monitors interactions between a plurality of entities and a defined application;

an arrangement component that analyzes the interactions to identify a common sequence of user interface elements of a user interface of the defined application that were navigated by a subset of the plurality of entities;

an analysis component that determines accessibility related information associated with the defined application based on received feedback information from at least one entity of the plurality of entities; and

an adjustment component that creates a modified application based on the one or more interactions and the accessibility related information of the defined application, wherein at least a portion of the modified application directs navigation through the common sequence of user interface elements of the user interface for disability access, the defined application is a non-disability accessible application and the modified application is a disability accessible application.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the adjustment component creates the modified application through use of a non-intrusive form, wherein application code within the non-intrusive form is updated in real-time, and wherein the creation of the modified application increases a processing efficiency of a device that requested the modified application.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the defined application is not changed by the adjustment component when the modified application is created.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the interactions monitored by the interaction component comprise interactions selected from a group comprising a navigation within the defined application, a behavior associated with the defined application, and an external action associated with the defined application.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least the portion of the modified application masks at least one user interface element of the user interface that is not part of the common sequence of user interface elements of the user interface.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the analysis component determines information to include in the defined application to create the modified application that comprises accessibility support.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the computer executable components further comprise:

a feedback solicitation component that appends feedback collection entry points within the defined application, wherein the at least one entity provides the feedback information based on an interaction with the defined application through the feedback collection entry points.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the computer executable components further comprise:

an evaluation component that derives the accessibility related information based on the feedback information; and

an insertion component that appends an attribute to the user interface associated with the modified application, wherein the attribute is selected from a group of attributes comprising a label of an input field and an alternative text string of an image.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the adjustment component attaches a proxy server to the defined application to render the modified application.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the adjustment component implements a browser plug-in that manipulates a rendered hypertext mark-up language page of the defined application at run time.

11. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

monitoring, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, interactions between a plurality of entities and a defined application;

analyzing, by the system, the interactions to identify a common sequence of user interface elements of a user interface of the defined application that were navigated by a subset of the plurality of entities;

determining, by the system, accessibility related information associated with the defined application based on received feedback information from at least one entity of the plurality of entities; and

creating, by the system, a modified application based on the one or more interactions and the accessibility related information of the defined application, wherein at least a portion of the modified application directs navigation through the common sequence of user interface elements of the user interface for disability access, the defined application is a non-disability accessible application and the modified application is a disability accessible application.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, further comprising creating, by the system, the modified application through use of a non-intrusive form, wherein application code within the non-intrusive form is updated in real-time.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the defined application is not changed during the creating the modified application, and wherein the creating the modified application comprises increasing a processing efficiency of a device that requested the modified application.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the monitoring the interactions comprises monitoring, by the system, the interactions selected from a group comprising a navigation within the defined application, a behavior associated with the defined application, and an external action associated with the defined application.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the at least the portion of the modified application masks at least one user interface element of the user interface that is not part of the common sequence of user interface elements of the user interface.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, further comprising determining information to include in the defined application to create the modified application that comprises accessibility support.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, further comprising:

appending, by the system, feedback collection entry points within the defined application, wherein the at least one entity provides the feedback information based on an interaction with the defined application through the feedback collection entry points.

18. A computer program product that facilitates rendering a non-disability accessible application in a disability accessible format, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions are executable by a processor to cause the processor to:

monitor interactions between a plurality of entities and a defined application;

analyze the interactions to identify a common sequence of user interface elements of a user interface of the defined application that were navigated by a subset of the plurality of entities;

determine accessibility related information associated with the defined application based on received feedback information from at least one entity of the plurality of entities; and

create a modified application based on the one or more interactions and the accessibility related information of the defined application, wherein at least a portion of the modified application directs navigation through the common sequence of user interface elements of the user interface for disability access, the defined application is the non-disability accessible application and the modified application is a disability accessible application.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein the program instructions cause the processor to:

create the modified application through use of a non-intrusive form, wherein application code within the non-intrusive form is updated in real-time.

20. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein the at least a portion of the modified application masks at least one user interface element of the user interface that is not part of the common sequence of user interface elements of the user interface.